xxiv. THE GANNET 



more tlican serves to excuse him. In " The Gentleman's 

 Magazine " for 1815 (Pt. II., p. 281) it is stated that more 

 MSS. were in preparation at the time of Montagu's death, 

 and these might contain something about Lundy and its 

 Gannets, did we now possess them. Noteworthy for its 

 vividness of description is the journal of John J. Audubon 

 (1833), and not less meritorious are the posthumous notes 

 of the St. Kilda minister Mackenzie (1841), to say nothing 

 of the narratives of William Thompson (1851), Professor 

 Macgillivray (1852), Henry Bryant (1860), Cunningham 

 (1866), Booth (1883), F. M. Chapman (1900), and J. Wigles- 

 worth (1903), and the returns made to Dr. Harvie-Brown 

 by the Scotch lighthouse keepers. On page 13 an imper- 

 fect attempt has been made to enumerate the books 

 which treat of the Gannet, but it would take too long to 

 give a complete bibliography^ 



The Latin nomenclature of the Gannet is fairly simple. 

 Starting with the great reformer of Natural History, we find 

 the Gannet wanting in the 9th and preceding editions of the 

 " Systema Natur?e," but included in the 10th and 12th 

 (1758 and 1766) — the latter being the last published under 

 Linnseus's own supervision — in the genus Pelecanus where 

 the few species known to Linnseus follow the Cormorants. 

 In the 12th and 13th editions the great Swede gives 

 {t.c, p. 217) a short but precise description of his Pelecanus 

 hassanus, and adds : " Habitat in Pelago SeptentrionaH, 

 vix., appropinquans littora per 2 miliaria ; indicat Halecum 

 adventum, quem sequitur. Gentleman s Jaen von [ ? van] 

 Gent dicta." The name of " Gentleman " Linnaeus probably 

 took from Debes and that of " Jaen van Gent " from 



