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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES 



No. XL.— JULY, 1862. 



OBSERVATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION OF 

 A SPECIMEN OF '' SULA BASSJNJ," (THE SOLAN 

 GOOSE OR GANNETT), LATELY OBTAINED AT 

 OSHAW A, C.W, AND BELONGING TO THE MUSEUM 

 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. 



BY THE REV. WILLIAM HINCKS, F.L.S., ETC., 



PROFESSOR OF NATURAI, HISTORY IN UNIVBRSITT COLLEOE, TORONTO, 



Read be/ore the Canadian Institute, February 8th, 1862. 



The specimen which I have the pleasure of bringing under the 

 notice of the Canadian Institute this evening, may be accounted a 

 curiosity in this part of the country, as the bird rarely leaves the 

 neighbourhood of the sea-coast ; and when it does so, can only be 

 regarded as an accidental wanderer. The specimen, which is a female, 

 agrees well with the descriptions and figures of the European Gannett ; 

 and having been unable to meet with any definite character of the 

 supposed North American species, Sula Americana, I cannot judge 

 whether it is really distinct or whether our individual belongs to it ; 

 but considering the tendency manifested by some naturalists to find 



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