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THE GANNET 



Pugnacity of Gannets in the Breeding Season. — Although not 

 incapable of flight as are the Penguins of southern seas, like 



THE BASS ROCK. 



[H. Gurney, Phot. 



them the Gannets resort to biting to defend themselves. 

 In situations from which they cannot readily fly, they depend 



is drier there, some of the guano islands, as I learn from Col. Feilden, 

 being practically in a rainless area : no use has ever been made of it at 

 the Bass, where the dung is waslied down by rains into the sea. 



