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more sparingly southward than in the opposite direc- 

 tion. A few still breed on a " Gannet rock " off the 

 Maine coast, and the bird is common on the fishing- 

 grounds. This rock lies to the southward of Grand' 

 Menan Island, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. There 

 is also a rock called by the same name lying to the 

 southwest of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The great breed- 

 ing resort of the species are Bird Rocks, in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, and Bonaventura Island, in the same gulf, 

 near Gaspe. 



"The herring fishermen who used to resort to the 

 Magdalens in early spring," says Capt. J. W. Collins, 

 " captured the bird by the ingenious device of a board 

 painted water-color, to the upper surface of which was 

 fastened a number of herring. This board was then 

 anchored at some distance from the shore : the birds 

 perceiving the lure, dashed down upon it, and broke 

 their necks." 



BROWN GANNET ; BOOBY. 



SuLA LEUCOGASTRA Bodd. 



Chars. Form like that of the foregoing, but coloration very differ- 

 ent, being brown ; below from the neck white ; bill and feet yel- 

 low. Young : grayish-brown, merely paler below ; bill dusky. 

 Rather smaller than the last. 



This is a southern species, — one perfectly authen- 

 ticated, however, as a casual visitor in New England. 

 It was given from Guilford, Conn., by the Rev. Mr. Lins- 

 ley, many years ago (Am. Jour. Sci., xliv., 1843, P- 271). 

 In 1856, Mr. Putnam recorded it for Massachusetts (Pr. 



