SOLAN GANNET. NATATORES. SULA. 455 



SOLAN GANNET. 



SULA BASS AN A, Briss. 

 PLATES LXXXVI . LXXXVII. 



Sula bassana, Briss. Orn. 6. 503. pi. 44 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 100. 



pi. 11 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 118. No. 192. 

 Suk Hoieri, Rail Syn. 123. 



Anser bassanus, Rail Syn. 122. A Will. 247. t. 63. 

 Pelecanus bassanus, Linn. Syst. 1. 219 Gmel. Syst. 1. 57]. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 891. sp. 26. 



Fou de Bassan, Buff. Ois. 8. 376 Id. PI. Enl. 278. 

 Fou blanc ou de Bassan, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 905. 

 Der Bassanische Pelikan, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 765. 

 The Gannet, Br. Zool. 2. 612. No. 293. pi. 103. Arct. Zool. 2. No. 510. 



Lath. Syn. 6. 608. 25 Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. pi. 265 Mont. Orn. 



Diet, and Sup Mont, in Wern. Trans. 1. 176 BewicVs Br. Birds. 



ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 390 Pult. Cat. Dorset. 22 Low's Faun. Oread. 148. 

 Solan Goose, Albin's Birds, 1. pi. 86. 

 Sula major, Briss. 6. 497. 2. ^ 



Grand Fou, Buff. Ois. 8. 372. 



Great Booby, Lath. Syn. 6. 610. 25. A. \ Youn 



Pelecanus maculatus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 579. 

 Fou tachete, Buff. Ois. 8. 375. -Id. PI. Enl. 986. I 

 Spotted Booby, Lath. Syn. 6. 614. 30. 



ALTHOUGH the Gannet (or, as it is more frequently called periodical 

 in Scotland, the Solan Goose) deserts its breeding stations visitant. 

 and the northern coasts of the kingdom upon the approach 

 of autumn, it is occasionally found throughout the winter in 

 the English Channel, where it keeps at a distance from the 

 land, feeding upon the pilchards and herrings, which at that 

 season retire to the deeper parts of the ocean. The main body 

 of these birds, however, appears to seek more southern lati- 

 tudes, as they are met with in great numbers during winter 

 in the Bay of Biscay, on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, 

 and in the Mediterranean ; and here they find an abundant 

 supply of the Anchovy and Sardine, both species of Clupea 

 (herring). They generally make their appearance about the 

 end of March or beginning of April, in the vicinity of their 

 breeding stations : these are the Isle of Ailsa, at the mouth 



