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been made at present, have hardly proved or disproved 

 the accepted theory of their returning year after year to 

 the same rocks.* That we may anticipate some extension 

 of the Gannets' range is probable, for increase in the 

 numbers of a species, must induce its surplus members 

 to go further afield. 



The Migrations of Canadian Gannets. — The status of 

 Gannets in Canada and the United States has already been 

 touched upon, and there are no special features to remark 

 on in their migrations. Doubtless wind affects them as 

 much as it does on the east side of the Atlantic. Having 

 but a limited acquaintance with the natural history of 

 North America, I have again applied to Mr. F. M. Chapman, 

 who has supplied me with a few data. On March 1st, 1904, 

 Mr. Chapman found Gannets abundant in Norfolk 

 Harbour, Virginia, as well as off the coast. On April 19th, 

 1902, he had met with ten Gannets, which may have been 

 going north, in about latitude 36,° on the coast of North 

 Carolina. On the authority of Mr. Wayne, Mr. Chapman 

 adds that the Gannet occurs regularly along the coast 

 of South Carolina during both spring and autumn, 



* Tn 1904 Mr. J. Laidlaw, at that time principal of the Bass Rock light- 

 house, fixed a metal ring on the legs of fifty two adult and forty young 

 Gannets, but as only two of them were heard of again, and that not long 

 afterwards, it is to be feared that tliey got the rings off (" Ann. Scot. 

 Mat. Hist.," 1904, p. 245). 



