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GANNET. 



COMMON GANNET. SOLAN GOOSE. SOLAND GOOSE. 



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Sula alba, FLEMING. 



" bassana, SELBY. JENYNS. GOULD. 



Pelecanus bassanus, PENDANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Sula. SulaoTo rob or spoil. Alba- White. 



THE Garmet, in Europe, is frequent in Norway, Sweden, 

 the Ferroe Isles, and Iceland, and thence advances to Portugal, 

 Spain, and the Mediterranean generally. It thus occurs on 

 die northern shores of Africa. In Asia it is equally common, 

 tnd is also assigned to South Africa and Madeira. In 

 America it extends from Greenland and Labrador, to the 

 United States, as far south as Carolina it is said, and pro- 

 bably still further. 



Gannets breed in immense numbers on Ailsa Crag, in the 

 Firth of Clyde; the Bass Eock, in the Firth of Forth; the 

 Stack of Souliskerry, near the Orkney Islands; Corea and 

 St. Kilda, in the Hebrides; Lundy Island, in the Bristol 

 Channel; and the Skelig Isles, off the coast of Ireland. 



The Solan Goose has not unfrequeritly been met with 

 quite inland. Thus one was shot in Fulbourn Fields, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, the latter end of September, 1852. Another, 

 a young one, in 1853, on some high ground called Kirmond 

 Top, near Swinhope House, Lincolnshire, the seat of George 

 Marmaduke Alington, Esq. One near Great Grimsby, an 

 adult bird, about the 1st. of May, 1850. One was found 

 at Culford, near Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, in December, 

 1844; a second was seen in the same neighbourhood a few 

 days after; and a third was procured on Icklingham Heath, 

 in the beginning of November, in 1849. 



