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slate-coloured garb of the first year ; the epithet " blue " 

 was formerly used of animals in the sense of dark slate- 

 coloured. 



2. Svabo, writing in 1782 — that is, more than a hundred 

 years after Debes — says in his MS.* that the old Gannets 

 were taken twice in the spring to the number of 200, and 



that the yearly take of young ones was about the same. 



3. Jorgen Landt. " Forsog til en Beskrivelse over 

 Fseroerne." Kjobenhavn (1800 f). 



* MS. as quoted by Col. Feilden, " Zoologist," 1872, p. 3286. The 

 original, which is at Copenhagen, is no doubt in Danish. 



t P. 73. An English edition, entitled, "A Description of the Faroe 

 Islands, by the Rev. G. Landt," was published at London in 1810, but it 

 is not so literal as Professor Newton's translation. The Gannet is 

 described at pp. 236 and 259 



