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GANNET. 
COMMON GANNET. SOLAN GOOSE. SOLAND GOOSE. 
Sula alba , 
Fleming. 
Selby. Jenyns. Gould. 
Pennant. Montagu. Bewick, 
“ bassana , 
Felecanus bassanus, 
Sula. Suluo— To rob or spoil. Alba— White. 
The Gannet, in Europe, is frequent in Norway, Sweden, 
the Ferroe Isles, and Iceland, and thence advances to Portugal, 
Spain, and the Mediterranean generally. It thus occurs on 
che northern shores of Africa. In Asia it is equally common, 
tnd is also assigned to South Africa and Madeira. In 
America it extends from Greenland and Labrador, to the 
United States, as far south as Carolina it is said, and pro¬ 
bably still further. 
Gannets breed in immense numbers on Ailsa Crag, in the 
Firth of Clyde; the Bass Bock, in the Firth of Forth; the 
Stack of Souliskerry, near the Orkney Islands; Corea and 
St. Kilda, in the Hebrides; Lundy Island, in the Bristol 
Channel; and the Skelig Isles, off the coast of Ireland. 
The Solan Goose has not unfrequently been met with 
quite inland. Thus one was shot in Fulbourn Fields, Cam¬ 
bridgeshire, the latter end of September, 1852. Another, 
a young one, in 1853, on some high ground called Kirmond 
Top, near Swinhope House, Lincolnshire, the seat of George 
Marmaduke Alington, Esq. One near Great Grimsby, an 
adult bird, about the 1st. of May, 1850. One was found 
at Culford, near Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, in December, 
1844; a second was seen in the same neighbourhood a few 
days after; and a third was procured on Ickhngham Heath, 
in the beginning of November, in 1849. 
