xlii. THE GANNET 



had extended their breeding-ground to two places on the 



cUffs. 



A third inventory in 1325 again tells us of the — 



fotolcs h)I)icf) aicjcanlicr /:?ccbam callctb *ganimctics fairUcs babine 

 crcat ncfitco," 



and after that we are left for a long time without further 



knowledge of them. 



In his " Lundy Island " — a book which has neither 

 date nor index, but which appears to be an extension of a 

 paper communicated to The Devonshire Association in 

 1875, and which at any rate from internal evidence was 

 published after 1871 — the late Mr. John Roberts Chanter 

 states (p. 138), that Gannets are continually referred to in 

 the old records of Lundy but he only cites the same 

 instances which Steinman gives. I have in vain searched 

 the Rolls series of State Papers, but it seems quite likely 

 that other references exist, even if Mr. Chanter did not 

 know of them. 



It is sad to think that Lundy Island, with its old asso- 

 ciations, which is — or rather was — the most southern of 

 the Gannet's Old World breeding-places, is now forsaken. 



This breeding station was unknown to writers on 

 British birds before Yarrell (1839), who doubtless took liis 

 information from Edward Moore {Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, 

 p. 364). 



Lundy Island has had a long and romantic history, but 

 it has been a history of freebooters, and outlaws, in which 

 birds, although its very name is derived from one of them, 

 have no part, and Gannets attracted but little attention. 

 What can be gleaned of their modern history has been 



