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THE GANNET 



struck me on August 29th, 1906, when I was there. In another 

 place, in allusion to the Gannets' tameness, he says, " Upon 

 this Island the Birds, being never shot at or frightened, are 

 so confident as to alight and feed their young ones close by 

 you " (p. 329). The figure in the " Ornithologia " has been 



THE BASS ROCK (AFTER SLEZER). 



already commented on.* The peculiar attachment of the 

 skin to the muscles is here first mentioned. 



27. " Theatrum Scotise," by John Slezer (1693). 



Contains quite a long account of the Bass Gannets but 

 nothing we have not had before ;t one of his two plates of 

 the Rock is here copied with the omission of two large 



* See p. 30. 



•f- Also repeated, I am informed, by J. Macky, in "A Journey through 

 Scotland," 1723. 



