CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Preface ----.. . xTJi 



NOTANDA AND CoRRIGENDA - - - - xlvH. 



Introduction ---..... i 



Bibliography .... - 13 



CHAPTER I. 



Names of the Gannet -----■■ 17 



Names applied to the Gannet — Norse Names — Gaelic 

 Names — Origin of the name " Gannet " — Oi-igin of " Solan " 

 — Professor Skeat's Explanation of it — Paucity of Infor- 

 mation Ijefore the Sixteenth Century — Representations 

 by the Early Writers not to l)e commended. 



CHAPTER II. 

 Distribution of the Gannet -.-... 33 



Geographical Distribution of the Gannet — Its Distribution 

 in Winter — Not the same as in Simimer — Its fifteen Breed- 

 ing Places — Nine of which are in the British Isles — All, 

 except one, being on the West Coast. 



CHAPTER III 

 Lundy, Grassholm, Skellig - - . - 42 



Lundy Island — Notices of the Gannet in Rolls of the Thir- 

 teenth Century — Their disastrous fate on Lundy which 

 might have been averted — Grassholm Island on the Welsh 

 Coast — Origin of its Gannetry not known — -Irish Stations 

 —The Little Skellig— The Bull Rock. 



CHAPTER IV. 



AiLSA Craig _ . . 75 



Ailsa Craig, on the coast of Ayrshire — The Early History 

 of its Gannets — The present State of the Settlement — 

 Fish eaten by Gannets — -Remains of 73 dead Gannets — 

 Number of Gannets at the present time on Ailsa. 



