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sure, make their way inland. It may be doubted if there 

 is a single county in England or Scotland, inland or 

 maritime, in which Gannets have not been picked up at 

 one time or another. In Scotland it has not infrequently 

 happened that some peasant returning to his work, has been 

 astonished at finding a Gannet in one of his fields, and they 

 have been discovered oftener than once in the most inland 

 parts of Yorkshire* and Northumberland. For Notting- 

 ham Mr. Whitaker records nine, for Surrey Mr. Bucknill 

 seven, for Shropshire Mr. Forrest six, for Leicestershire 

 Mr. Montagu Browne five, for Northamptonshire Lord 

 Lilford three, for Berkshire Mr. Clark-Kennedy two. In 

 the maritime counties they occur inland still more 

 frequently, as might be expected. 



I have been at some pains to make a list of Gannets 

 found inland, in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, three 

 counties bordering on the sea, where records have been 

 kept, and on looking through the dates I find one put 

 down for January, none for February, March or April, 

 two for June, one for July, no less than nine in 

 September, six in October, two in November, and 

 four in December. 



The subject of Gannets inland attracted attention 

 long ago, and accordingly British records go back a 



* Nelson's " Birds of Yorkshire," II., p. 283. 



