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more northern parts of the Scandinavian coast ; and is met 

 with, according to M. Malm, on the shores of the Icy Sea, 

 though only during the winter time. It is not believed to 

 breed in the peninsula. It is an occasional visitant to the 

 Danish coast, driven thither in most instances, Kjserbolling 

 says, by north-westerly tempests. 



TEE HAV-SULE. 



Pontoppidan gives a wonderful account of the gannet ; and 

 his figure of it, as accurately given above, is about as curious 

 as the description itself. 



" The Hav-Sule is," he says, " a large sea-bird, which 

 somewhat resembles a goose ; the head and neck are rather 

 like those of a stork, excepting that the bill is shorter and 

 thicker, and is yellowish ; the legs are long ; across the wings 



