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have been content to stay some time longer in the enjoyment 

 of their existing quarters.* It may be safely asserted that 

 Gannets are but slightly affected by extreme cold, provided 

 only their supply of food is not curtailed thereby. 



Now Gannets are not at all typical migratory birds — 

 taking the word in this restricted sense, few frequenters 

 of the ocean are. Neither are the Guillemot, Razorbill 

 and Puffin — which return to their breeding haunts with 

 regularity, but do not all return from a more southern 

 latitude — to be called t3rpical migrants. They go where 

 there are fish, often keeping far out to sea in the 

 winter, but evidence indicates that a portion of them do 

 not go south. The Divers {Colymbi)-\ do, it is true, 

 make a considerable movement with the seasons, but 

 all records point to there being little change of area 

 with the Cormorants, and not a great deal among Gulls. 



Gannets on British Coasts in Winter. — Gannets are not 

 all migrants, because they have been repeatedly met 

 with in December and JanuaryJ on many points of the 



* " Dictionary of Birds " — Art : " Migration." 



f Gatko records "inconceivable" numbers of Colymhiis septentrionalis off 

 Heligoland on the 2nd and 3rd December, 1879, "almost by the million" 

 (" Zoologist," 1880, p. 184) (" Birds of Heligoland," p. 57*)). 



J Mr. Canxpbell communicated to the " Scotsman " the following 

 entries of Gannets seen at the Bass Rock in the mild winter of 1910-11 : — 

 December 1st, about 300; 16th, (?) twenty; 31st, twenty-seven; 

 January 10th, 1911, six ; 12th, fifty ; 13th, about a hundred; 21st, about 

 five hundred, of which some settled on the Rock. 



