SoLAN GANNET. NATATORES. SULA. 455 
SOLAN GANNET. 
SULA BASSANA, Briss. 
PLATES LXXXVI*. LXXXVII. 
Sula bassana, Briss. Orn. 6. 503. pl. 44.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 100. 
pl. 11.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 118. No. 192. 
Sula Hoiéri, Rati Syn. 123. 
Anser bassanus, Rati Syn. 122. A.— Will. 247. t. 63. 
Pelecanus bassanus, Linn. Syst. 1. 219.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 577.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 891. sp. 26. 
Fou de Bassan, Buff: Ois. 8. 376.—Id. Pl. Enl. 278. 
Fou blanc ou de Bassan, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 905. 
Der Bassanische Pelikan, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 765. 
The Gannet, Br. Zool. 2. 612. No. 293. pl. 103.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 510. 
—Lath. Syn. 6. 608. 25.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. pl. 265.—Mont. Orn. 
Dict. and Sup.— Mont. in Wern. Trans. 1. 176.—Bewick’s Br. Birds. 
ed. 1826, 2. p. t.390.—Pult, Cat. Dorset. 22.—Low’s Faun. Orcad. 148. 
Solan Goose, Albin’s Birds, 1. pl. 86. 
Sula major, Briss. 6. 497. 2. 
Grand Fou, Buff: Ois. 8. 372. 
Great Booby, Lath. Syn. 6. 610. 25. A. 
Pelecanus maculatus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 579. 
Fou tacheté, Buff: Ois. 8. 375.—Id. Pl. Enl. 986. 
Spotted Booby, Lath. Syn. 6. 614. 30. 
Young. 
Autuovucu the Gannet (or, as it is more frequently called periodical 
in Scotland, the Solan Goose) deserts its breeding stations visitant. 
and the northern coasts of the kingdom upon the approach 
of autumn, it is occasionally found throughout the winter in 
the English Channel, where it keeps at a distance from the 
land, feeding upon the pilchards and herrings, which at that 
season retire to the deeper parts of the ocean. The main body 
of these birds, however, appears to seek more southern lati- 
tudes, as they are met with in great numbers during winter 
in the Bay of Biscay, on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, 
and in the Mediterranean; and here they find an abundant 
supply of the Anchovy and Sardine, both species of Clupea 
(herring). They generally make their appearance about the 
end of March or beginning of April, in the vicinity of their 
breeding stations: these are the Isle of Ailsa, at the mouth 
