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THE GANNET 



landed on Sulusker {i.e., Solan's Skerry),* one of the outer- 

 most of the Westmann group, on September 10th, with a 

 party of four men in quest of the young Gannets, which are 

 considered ripe when the black appears in their wings. t My 



YOUNG GANNETS BEING DRIVEN. 



[E. Gurney. 



relative tells me the height of Sulusker, where the Gannets 

 breed, is about three hundred feet, and before undertaking 

 the climb to its summit the leader of the party offers up 



* The same referred to by Olafsen as Suluklettesr. 



f At the Bass Rock they would have reached this stage by the third 

 week of August : at the Westmann Islands Mr. Nielsen informs me Gannets 

 only begin to lay about the 10th of April 



