GANNET. 
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Joseph R. Little, Esq., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
has written me word of one which was shot in January, 
1853, at Elderwell, near Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, at least 
twenty miles from the sea. He says in another letter that 
they occasionally stray so far inland. Mr. M. C. Cooke 
informs me of one found in a field at Swanscombe, in Kent, 
in the spring of 1847. Another was obtained at Frensham 
Pond, near Farnham, Surrey. 
The Gannet has occurred two or three times in the county 
of Northampton. 
A young one was taken in the parish of Ash, near 
Godaiming, Surrey, during the autumn of 1847. In Norfolk, 
they are not uncommon about Yarmouth in the autumn, 
following the shoals of fish as they pass along the coast. 
They occasionally occur also in the spring. Several were 
shot in the Roads, after the severe gale of October 31st., 
1827. 
One was taken near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, in 1843; 
it was in company with some tame Geese. Two others, 
males, apparently exhausted after a gale from the north¬ 
east, in the summer of 1849. 
In Yorkshire, one was taken in a field near Beverley. In 
Berkshire, one, a young male, was shot near Wytliam, the 
seat of Lord Abingdon, by his Lordship’s gamekeeper, on 
the 14th. of October, 1838. Another was seen at the time; 
and a third about the same time was seen at Weston-on- 
the-Green, Oxfordshire, in which neighbourhood others have 
been previously noticed. 
In Cornwall, this species is seen occasionally near Falmouth, 
at Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, and other places. One, the Hon. 
T. L. Powys wrote me word, haunted Plymouth Sound in 1855. 
In Scotland one was found, a young bird of the year, 
on Moffat Water, Dumfriesshire, in the latter part of October, 
1828. They breed on some of the rocks on the northern 
part of Sutherlandshire. In the Orkneys they are abundant, 
especially in the autumn. 
In Ireland they are occasional summer visitants. 
They migrate southwards towards winter, and northwards 
again in the spring; the latter towards the end of the month 
of March or the beginning of April, ‘over the sea, over the 
sea,’ and occur with us mostly in the summer, but some have 
been met with in February and March. Many occurred in 
March, 1807, and in February, 1808. 
