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THE GANNET 



Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, who, for a great number of years, 

 has done so much for Scottish ornithology. 



1. Mr. Harvie-Brown furnishes us with the reckoning kept 

 by Mr. M'Gill of Gannets which passed Cape Wrath, a well- 

 known promontory in the north of Scotland, which all 

 Gannets going to the Minch, or returning north from it, 

 must go round.* After a general statement that the number 

 of Solan Geese which pass Cape Wrath is frequently beyond 

 anyone's power to reckon, Mr. M'Gill, the lighthouse-keeper, 

 gives the following count of Gannets for fifteen — not quite 

 consecutive — days, commencing July 14th, 1879 : — 



Au 



2. In 1880 the record was again remarkable at the same 

 place, from 800 to 900 Gamiets being seen by Mr. M'Gill 

 to pass Cape Wrath on a single day — April 14th. They were 

 going east, and against the wind,t the strength of which is 

 not stated. 



* " Zoologist," 1880, p. 200. 



t " Report," 1880, p. 90. 



