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ORGANS OF BREATHING. 



in the North. A board is turned adrift, on which a 

 dead fish is fastened. On seeing it, the Gannet 

 pounces down, and is frequently killed or stunned 

 by striking the board, or is secured by its sharp- 

 pointed beak being actually driven into the wood 

 like a nail, and holding it fast. 



f The G-annet, or Solan-Goose 



There is another bird even more copiously sup- 

 plied with air than the above, called the Chavana 

 Fidele, in which the skin is entirely separated from 

 the flesh, and filled with an infinity of small air- 



