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themselves to flight. In the course of a season, 

 those who arc successful will catch, of old and young 

 ones, about four hundred brace." 



As we shall have occasion to speak of the Gannet 

 again, in giving a general account of the modes of 

 catching the various sea-birds that are found upon 

 our shores, we shall, for the present, take our leave 

 of it, as well as of the two last divisions of this 

 Table, the Phaetons (see vol. i., p. 96,) or Tropic- 

 Birds, and Anhingas, or Darters, both comparatively 



.Anhinga, or Darter. 



little known, and inhabitants of remote regions: the 

 former, from its name, being found almost invariably 

 within the tropics, and generally at great distances 



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