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as it is sometimes called, is a regular autumn and 

 winter visitant to all the Islands, but never so 

 numerous, I think, as on the south coast of Devon ; 

 birds, however, in all states of plumage, young birds 

 as well as adults, and in the various intermediate 

 or spotted states of plumage, make their appear- 

 ance. It stays on through the winter, but never 

 remains to breed as it does regularly at Lundy 

 Island. I have seen both adults and young birds 

 fishing round Guernsey, and Mrs. Jago (late Miss 

 Cumber) told me she had had several through her 

 hands when she was the birdstuffer there ; she 

 also wrote to me on the 16th March, 1879, to say 

 a fully adult Gannet had been shot in Fermain Bay 

 on the 15th ; and Mr. Grieve, the carpenter and 

 birdstuffer at Alderney, had the legs and wings of 

 an adult bird, shot by him near that Island, nailed 

 up behind the door of his shop. I do not think, 

 however, that the strong tides, rough seas, and 

 sunken rocks of the Channel Islands suit the fishing 

 operations of the Gannet as well as the smoother 

 seas of the south coast of Devon ; not but what the 

 Gannet can stand any amount of rough sea ; and 

 I have seen it dash after fish into seas that one 

 would have thought must have rolled it over and 

 drowned it, especially as it rose to the surface 

 gulping down its prey. 



It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only 



