A Michigan Record for the Gannet. 43 



A MICHIGAN KECORD FOR THE GANNET. 



Sulci bassana (Linn.).^ 



BY N. A. WOOD. 



The A O. U. checklist gives the range of the Gannet as 

 " Coasts of North Atlantic .... occurs off eastern United 

 States in migration ; casual north to Greenland ; accidental in 

 Indiana and Ontario." 



Mr. A. W. Butler has called my attention to his Indiana 

 record, which is as follows : "A few^tnonths ago I was taken 

 to see a bird of this species in the, store of Roman Eichstadt, 

 Michigan City, Indiana. It was in immature fall plumage as 

 determined by the U. S. Biological Survey, to which a photo- 

 graph was sent. The bird was killed, according to the owner, 

 on Lake Michigan, in Novembej, 1904, about two miles from 

 Michigan City." (Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 190G, pp. 149-150.) 



The Ontario records are as follows : Shirleys Bay, Ottawa, 

 Ontario, October 14, 1909 (Eifrig, Ottawa Naturalist, 1910, 

 p. 158). Welland, Ontario, several mile.s from Lake Erie, 

 November, 1907 (Fleming, Auk., 1908, p. 48G). Flamilton, 

 Ontario, " One found many years ago. Proc. Can. Inst., 1890, 

 immature shot at Oshawa, Ontario, in 1863 " (Mcllwraith, 

 Birds oi Ontario, 2nd Ed., p. 56). 



Eaton describes i its occurrence in New York as follows: 

 "On rare occasions it wanders to the interior of the State. At 

 Canton, N. Y., December 10, 1879, a specimen was captured 

 on the Grasse River;, on Saratoga Lake, November 11, 1880." 

 (Birds of New York, Mem. N. Y. State Museum, 13, p. 169.) 



Up to the present time there have been no records for Mich- 

 igan, although Gibbs in his "Annotated List of the Birds of 

 Michigan" (Bull. U. S. 'Geol. and Geog. Survey of the Ter- 

 ritories. Vol. V, 1879. p. 495) says: "Occasionally taken on 

 the Great Lakes." On October 19, 1911, an immature fe- 

 male was collected vat Walker Lake in Hamburg Township, 

 Livingston County, Alich., by Mr. J. P. Case. Walker Lake 

 is small, containing only about forty acres. When first seen 

 ^ From the University of Michigan Museum. 



