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what Mr. A. Granger has about them in his " Faune Orn. 

 du Sud-ouest [de la France]," (1893). 



As regards its northern winter Hmit, it is not easy to be 

 precise. Numbers of Gannets have been occasionally seen at 

 the Shetland Islands in December,* and at that season they 

 are not infrequent on the coast of Ireland (R. M. Barrington), 

 and may be looked for in the English Channel. t There 

 are generally some in the North Sea. The late Henry 

 Stevenson had known twenty or more to be brought 

 into a Norfolk port in December, and several were seen as 

 far east as the south-west coast of Sweden in January, 1884, 

 and again in December, 1887,| while according to Goebel it 

 has even been seen at Varanger (" Zur Ornis Lapplands' und 

 der Solowezkyschen inseln," p. 124). 



On the other side of the Atlantic the Gannet is stated to 

 go as far south as the Gulf of Mexico in winter, 2,500 miles 

 from its Canadian breeding-places, and it has been 

 identified at Trinidad, § but there Sula leucogastra takes 

 its place, just as Sula cape7isis does in a corresponding 

 latitude in the Old World. It is not very uncommon on the 

 coast of Louisiana.il 



Distribution in Summer. — ^In summer the Gannet's range 



* "Zoologist," 18(H), p. 1703. f "Zool.," 18(5.5, pp. 94, 98. 



X " O. K. der Ac. der Wissense," XVI., p. 51 ; XVII., p. ()9. 

 §"The Field," April 17tli, 1897. !| " Auk," 1907, [>. 310. 



