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the rest of the body,*t Besides the tide, it has to reckon 

 with any high wind, but September is generally a tranquil 

 time of the year, and young Gannets from Ailsa or the 



[J. M. Ccuiiphell, Phot. 

 GANNETS WHICH HAVE NOT YET FLOWN. 



* There are other sea-birds which subsist in the same manner. The 

 young of Puffinus brevicauda and P. anglorum are beUeved to do so. 

 When the Cape Penguins {Spheniscus demersus (L.) ) come up from the sea, 

 thoy are so enveloped in fat that they require nothing to eat until their 

 moult is over (" Three Voyages of a Naturalist," p. 161). In the same 

 way it is said that Albatrosses when young are so portentously fat as to be 

 able to subsist four or five months without food being given to them. 



f Mr. W. Evans tells me of a young Gannet taken from the Bass Rock, 

 August 13th, 1897, which ate nothing for nineteen days. Mr. Booth 

 mentions another which fasted fourteen days, and would have gone on 

 doing so longer. 



