GANNET 



COMMON GANNET SOLAN GANNET SOLAND GOOSE- 

 SOLAN GOOSE. 



PLATE CCXIL FIGURE III. 



Pelecanus bassanus, . . . PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Sula alba, YARRELL. 



Sula bassana, .... BRISSON. SELBY. 



RE AT numbers of these birds build together in the 

 same situations, on the side of precipitous cliffs and 

 rocks, the nests, made of sea-weed and grass, being almost 

 close to each other. 



The egg, for there is only one, is at first a very pale 

 blue, overlaid with chalky white, but it is rapidly discoloured 

 during incubation. 



Both birds sit ; the period of incubation being about 

 six weeks 



