DISTRIBUTION OF THE GANNET 41 



certain to have been ever voluntarily abandoned. Briefly 

 they are as follows : — 



England. — Lundy (but this, it is to be feared, is 



for the present forsaken). 

 Wales. — Grasholm, on the coast of Pembrokeshire. 

 Ireland. — The Bull Rock ; The Skelligs. 

 Scotland. — The Bass Rock ; Ailsa Craig ; St. Kilda 

 Islands ; Sulisgeir (or North Barra) ; The stack 

 of Stack and Skerry.^ 

 Feroe . — Mygganaes . 

 Iceland. — Sulusker ; Eldey ; Grimsey. 

 Canada.^ — Bird Rocks ; Bonaventure. 

 It certainly is not a little singular that all the breeding- 

 places in the British Isles should be on the west coasts, 

 except the Bass, as well as one at Feroe and two in Iceland, 

 but the west coast is more rocky than the east, and there 

 are more islands there, which is what Gannets love, indeed 

 so strong is their predilection for islands that not a single 

 settlement is known to exist on the mainland. 



* Marked by error on the map as Suliskerry. 



