266 THE GANNET 



commence by quoting a very good observer of birds, 

 H. C. Miiller (Sysselmand). " Faeroernes Fuglefauna." * 



TRANSLATION BY PROFESSOR NEWTON. 



" Sula hassana . . . considered to arrive on land on 

 Polismessudag [St. Paul's Mass], 25tli January, yet 

 single birds may be seen flying throughout the whole 

 winter. Solans breed and indeed dwell on no other place 

 in the Faeroes than Myggenaes holm and the two rocks 

 Pujgarsdrengur and Fleatidrengur standing close thereto. As 

 an exception one may conclude that when they build their 

 nests they collect the materials on the island of Myggenaes 

 close to the Holm. Early in February a few Solans are 

 seen by day on the north side of the Holm and the Drongs, 

 but not by night. From Mariumessu [Ladyday] the 25th 

 March, they are seen also by night, and they are then very 

 fat, but become leaner towards the breeding time. 

 Solans search about in all the fjords where there are Sei 

 and Sild [coal-fish and herrings], on which they feed by 

 plunging like a dart from the sky, eight or ten fathoms or 

 more, and can sometimes be down for a minute before they 



* Page 73. It is se^Darately printed from " Videnskabelige Meddelser 

 fra den Nat. Forening," 1862. Miiller published a shorter article on the 

 Gannet in " Journal fiir Ornithologie " ( 1869, p. 388). Miiller's MS. 

 annotated up to within a year of his death is in the jjossession of 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown, to whom it was given by the author. 



