18 THE GANNET 



Vernacular Names. 



Bass-Tolpel, German. 



Schottengans, German. 



Jan van Gent,* Dutch. 



Basaangans, Dutch. 



Gent, in Hehgoland. 



Le Fou de Bassan, French. 



Boubie '^ 



Harenguier ?• Names in Normandy (Kerville). 



Marga f ^ 



Alcatraz,! Spanish. 



Ganso-patola, Portuguese ~\ 



Mascato, Portuguese [ (" Ibis," 1887, p. 31). 



Facao, Portuguese ^ 



Sula bianca, Italian. 



colli ambitus totideni crassus erat, rostri, quod valde mucronatum & 

 firmum habebat, longitude, uncise quinque cum semisse : rostri . pars 

 crassior, & quse circa oculos, nigra erat ; coi-poris ambitus viginti 

 quatuor uncias, hoc est, binos pedes Romanos explebat, alse plus quam 

 pedem longae, caudae vero longiores pamije septem unciarum longitudinem 

 non superabant : crura satis tenuia infirma habebat (Exot. Lib. decern., 

 367). The above is Clusius' description of a dried bird, sent by Dr. Henry 

 Hoier, physician in Bergen, Norway, to Dr. Peter Pauw, in Leyden. 



* " The Dutch ' Jan van Gent,' i.e., Jolin of Ghent," writes Professor 

 Newton, " is a sailor's name : Gannet and Gans conveyed no particular 

 meaning to them, so, as often happens with illiterate men, they took the 

 name of the town as something tangible." 



t I have more than once heard " Margot " applied to the Gannet in 

 the " Pas de Calais." Professor Newton thought this provincialism might 

 have its derivation in Mar (mare) and 6was (a goose). 



J Sometimes also used for Gulls (Irby), also for the Pelican (Skeat). 



