270 THE GANNET 



It will be observed that Svabo and Landt only give the 

 annual take of Gannets as being in their time 200 old ones? 

 and 200 young ones, whereas Miiller says 300 old ones and 

 600 young ones, better appliances and greater skill being 

 probably employed in taking them, 



" The Birds of the Feeroe Islands." By Capt. Henry W. 

 Feilden. ("Zoologist," 1872, p. 3210.) Contains valuable 

 notes on Gannets and other birds. 



Colonel Feilden, to whose assistance I am greatly indebted, 

 visited Myggenaes in June, 1872, and Mr. R. M. Barrington was 

 there inl892, the former saw the Gannets on the Holm where 

 he could not land, but was able to count 136 on their nests. 



I have not met with any subsequent account of these 

 Gannets in English publications. In 1894 Mr. J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown went to the Fseroes and visited Myggenses, and 

 brought back valuable notes, and a series of photographs, 

 one of the best of which I am permitted to reproduce.* In 

 1904 I was informed by Mr. Jens Olsen, of Thorshavn, 

 with whom Mr. Harvie-Brown put me in communication, 

 that the number of Gannets taken still kept up to about 

 six hundred young ones, and three hundred old ones, the 

 same figures as given by Miiller, and that the young in 

 down was still called an " Ompel."t 



* A good view of a part of the Holm and the Gannet " stacks " adjoining 

 it will be found in " Proc. R.P.S.," Edinburgh, 1895 (PI. TI.). 

 t See p. 19. 



