GAKffET. 13 



Joseph R. Little, Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 has written me word of one which was shot in January, 

 1853, at Elder well, near Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, at least 

 twenty miles from the sea. He says in another letter that 

 they occasionally stray so far inland. Mr. M. C. Cooke 

 informs me of one found in a field at Swanscombe, in Kent, 

 in the spring of 1847. Another was obtained at Frensham 

 Pond, near Farnham, Surrey. 



The Gannet has occurred two or three times in the county 

 of Northampton. 



A young one was taken in the parish of Ash, near 

 Godalming, Surrey, during the autumn of 1847. In Norfolk, 

 they are not uncommon about Yarmouth in the autumn, 

 following the shoals of fish as they pass along the coast. 

 They occasionally occur also in the spring. Several were 

 shot in the Koads, after the severe gale of October 31st., 

 1827. 



One was taken near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, in 1843; 

 it was in company with some tame Geese. Two others, 

 males, apparently exhausted after a gale from the north- 

 east, in the summer of 1849. 



In Yorkshire, one was taken in a field near Beverley. In 

 Berkshire, one, a young male, was shot near Wytham, the 

 seat of Lord Abingdon, by his Lordship's gamekeeper, on 

 the 14th. of October, 1838. Another was seen at the time; 

 and a third about the same time was seen at Weston-on- 

 the-Green, Oxfordshire, in which neighbourhood others have 

 been previously noticed. 



In Cornwall, this species is seen occasionally near Falmouth, 

 at Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, and other places. One, the Hon. 

 T. L. Powys wrote me word, haunted Plymouth Sound in 1855. 



In Scotland one was found, a young bird of the year, 

 on Moffat Water, Dumfriesshire, in the latter part of October, 

 1828. They breed on some of the rocks on the northern 

 part of Sutherlandshire. In the Orkneys they are abundant, 

 especially in the autumn. 



In Ireland they are occasional summer visitants. 



They migrate southwards towards winter, and northwards 

 again in the spring; the latter towards the end of the month 

 of March or the beginning of April, 'over the sea, over the 

 sea,' and occur with us mostly in the summer, but some have 

 been met with in February and March. Many occurred in 

 March, 1807, and in February, 1808. 



