NAMES OF THE GANNET 



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account of the Gannet in Chapter II., but all the facts had 

 already been given by other writers, so it need hardly be 

 quoted. 



5. Eleazer Albin, in his " Natural History of Birds," 

 1731 (I., p. 82), gives his Gannet five toes, although correctly 

 stating in the letterpress that it has only four, but otherwise 

 the plate is passable. 



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THE GANNET IN PONTOPPIDAN'S NATURAL HISTORY 

 OF NORWAY. 



6. Then we have the delineation in Bishop Pontoppidan's 

 " Natural History of Norway " (1753),^ where the Hav-Sule 



* " Det forste Forbog paa Norges Natiu'lige Historia," II., p. 104, 

 English edition, II., p. 76. The figure is copied in Lloj'd's " Scandinavian 

 Adventures." 



