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THE GANNET 



with a great splash, where, none the worse for the descent, 

 they generally fall to fighting again, and one seizing the 

 other by the beak spins him round until the white foam 

 froths around.* 



GANNET AND YOUNG. 



[./. 0. ^(iams, Pliot. 



Occasionally, I was told, they strike a rock in falling 

 and break a wing, and Mr. Campbell has known them to 

 be caught by the leg in a fissure, and so perish. 



* In his "Avifauna of Laysan " (I., p. 24), Mr. Rothschild gives a 

 curious photograph of a Stda cyanops fighting with a Frigate Bird, which 

 shows that our Gannot is not tfio only member of the genus to bo 

 pugnacious. 



