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as Mr. Chapman knows, wliicli investigations can throw on 

 the date of their extinction ; most hkely it was not at any 

 time a large settlement. Oannet Rock, near Yarmouth, Nova 

 Scotia. — In 1856 Dr. Henry Bryant found a hundred and 

 fifty Gannets' nests here,* but I am not in possession of 

 any later information about this settlement. A short 

 quotation may be given. He says, " The number of brown 

 [immature] birds was about one to three of the white, or 

 adult birds. On scrambling to the summit of the rock, we 

 found the nests ranged all round its borders, most numerous 

 on the northern aspect, where they formed a continuous row ; 

 they were very bulky, composed entirely of eel-grass, and 

 were apparently used for more than one season, as several of 

 them had been recently repaired." Perroquet Island. — The 

 Gannet is believed to have entirely ceased breeding at 

 Perroquet [i.e., Puffin) Island, near Mingan, where in 1881 

 Mr. W. Brewster found several hundreds nestingf ; Mr. Lucas 

 says that a few lingered as late as 1887, but their eggs were 

 regularly taken.:]: Shag Rock. — In 1881 Mr. Brewster was 

 informed of a few Gannets from Bird Rock having bred on 

 Shag Rock, which is close to the Magdalen Islands, on the 

 west side.§ The Gannet Islands, Labrador. — Some 400 miles 



* "Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.," 1857, p. 119. 

 t " Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.," 1883, p. 39.'}. 

 X " Tlie Auk," 1888, p. 134. 

 § T.c, p. 391. 



