456 SULA BASSANA. 
[§ 5180. Zwo—Gannet Rock, 23 June, 1860. J. Kees 
From Dr. Heermann. 
The initials are those of Mr. John Krider, from whom Dr. Heermann 
doubtless obtained these eggs; but the rest of the inscription points to their 
coming from Dr. Bryant, who, on the day named, arrived at the “ Bird Rocks” 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Proc. Boston Soe. N, H. viii. p. 65), one of which, 
called “Gannet Rock”, and known as a breeding-station of this species since 
the time of Jacques Cartier (1534), he minutely describes (pp. 68-70), 
computing that there were 50,000 pairs of Gannets nesting on the summit, an 
estimate perhaps too great. The place seems now in a fair way of being made 
desolate through their destruction during the last forty years (cf. H. K. Job, 
‘Among the Water-birds’, part ii.). | 
[§ 5181. One.—* Stack Rock, South Wales,” not later than 
| 1864. From the late Mr. Sealy’s Collection. 
This is also inscribed by Mr. Sealy “ taken by Ed. Walker” ; but owing to 
the loss of his Catalogue nothing more is known of it. Mr. Saunders has 
informed me that the locality was most likely Grasholm (cf. § 5186) ; but 
the existence of a Gannet’s breeding-place off the Welsh coast was quite 
unknown to me and most ornithologists so long ago as 1864, and this egg 
must have been taken before Mr. Sealy’s departure for India in 1863 or 1864. ] 
[§ 5182. One.—Ailsa Craig, 6 June, 1884. “R.S.” From 
Mr. Robert Service, 1886. 
Taken by Mr. Service himself, as he kindly wrote to me. ] 
[§ 5188. Zwo.—Bull Rock, Co. Kerry, June, 1884. From 
Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
Bought by Mr. Gurney at the sale of Mr. Ussher’s Collection, at Mr. Stevens’s 
rooms, 21 October, 1902, where they formed Lot 136, and kindly given to me. 
In 1899 Mr. Henry Evans took me in his yacht to the Bull Rock, but the 
number of Gannets frequenting it appeared to be very small. According to 
Mr. Ussher (Birds of Ireland, p. 156), the existence of this settlement was not 
made known until 1868. } 
[§ 5184. One.—* St. Kilda,” 1887. 
Obtained by my brother and myself at St. Kilda, 11 July, 1887 ; but from 
which of the three Gannet-stations in that little group of islands it came the 
people did not say, though most likely from Borrera. Thanks to the kindness 
of the late Mr. Henry Evans J have made five visits to St. Kilda, and my 
admiration of its scenery and the abundance of its bird-life has continually 
increased each time that I have been there. Mr. Evans used to say that a 
number of Gannets equal to that frequenting the Bass or Ailsa might be 
taken away from St. Kilda without the population of the last being sensibly 
