X. THE GANNET 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 Flight - - - - ----- 407 



The Depth to which Gaiiiiets can dive — -Their Progress in 

 Water and on Land — Their Flight — Movements con- 

 trolled by Wind — Migration Statistics collected for Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Mortality among Gannets - . . . 427 



The Liability of all Birds to Accidents — ^Mortality among 

 Gannets — Sluggishness of the Gannet — Accidents to which 

 Gannets are liable — Plunging into Boats, etc. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Considerations as to the Age of Gannets - - 449 



Ages attainable Ijy Birds — By Gannets in Particular — 

 Traditions about it at the Bass Rock — Lack of Relial)le 

 Statistics — Mr. C. J. Maynard's Evidence by Dissection. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 Gannets as Food 453 



The Uses to which Gannets have been put — Employed as 

 Human Food — Their Grease a Medical Unguent, classed 

 with that of Bausones (Badgers) — Their Eggs eaten — Their 

 Feathers made into Beds and Cushions. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 Plumage - - 473 



The Gannet's Plumage — Description of the Nestling — Of 

 the Yomig — Of the Tntermediate Stages — Of the Adult — 

 Opinions of Macgillivray, Ogilvie-Grant, Seebohm, and 

 Howard Saunders — Period of Moult — Pterylosis — Weight 

 of a Gannet. 



CHAPTER XXL 

 Osteology - 499 



The Gannet's Skull — Beak — Vertebral Column — Sternum — 

 Coracoid Bones — Clavicles — Pelvis — Wing- and Leg-Bones 

 — Feet and Claws. 



