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Pollack (Lythe), G. pollachius. (But not at the Bass 

 according to Booth.) 



Codling, G. morrhua. Fide various writers. 



Whiting, G. merlangus. Fide various writers. 



Haddock, G. ceglefinus. Fide R. Gray. 



Power cod, G. r/iinutus. Fide R. Gray. 



Sand-eel, Ammodytes lanceolatus. Fide H. N. Bonar, 



Salmon smolts. Fide Portmagee fishermen. 



Sea Trout. Fide W. Evans. 



Gurnards, of any species. 



Garfish, Belone vulgaris. Fide W. Girvan. 



Sprat, Clupea spratta. Fide E. T. Booth, 



Pilchard, C. pilcharda. 



Anchovy, Engraulis encrassicholus. Fide H. Saunders. 



Cuttle-fish. Fide Portmagee fishermen. 



As regards their food off North American shores, it is 

 probably much the same as in Europe. I have no recent 

 information, but Henry Bryant, writing of the Gannets at 

 Bird Rocks in 1860, says : — " The birds were feeding prin- 

 cipally on herring, but also on capelin filled with spawn, 

 some fine looking mackerel, a few squids, and in one instance 

 a cod-fish weighing at least two pounds."* 



The Amount of Food Required. — With regard to the 

 quantity of food which Gannets require, it is evidently 



* " Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Soc," Vol. Vlll., p. 65. 



