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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 1 

 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. 



