HISTORICAL PREFACE 



xlv. 



been able to secure a snapshot of a Gannet in the act of 

 plunging, and this still remains a desideratum. 



My conscience pricks me with having occupied five 

 hundred and sixty pages with the history of one bird, but 

 I console myself with the reflection that had the bird 

 been the Cuckoo or the Raven, the book would have 

 been much longer. 



Keswick Hall, Norwich, 

 May, 1913. 



J. H. G. 



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r^. G. Abbott, Phot. 

 SULA CAPENSIS AT ICHABO. 



