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P E I. I C A N. 



-4.GANNE;r. 



Gannet, Gsn, Syn. vi. p. 608. N° 25. 



if 'Find that Ic is oat the Pekcanus-Sula of LinnaiiSy but the 5'&/a 

 Hoieri, a different bird, and a mere variety of our Common Gan- 



■net, which is now and then found in this kingdom*. It chiefly 



varies in having fome of the fecond quills, and fome of the tail 



feathers, black. 



Mr. Marlin, o( Teingmouth, in Devon/hire, iui^tSti that the 



Gannet breeds thereabouts, as he has feen the old birds in the 



fummer feafon. 



26. 

 Var. 

 +- LESSER G. 



•DKS.CRIPTION, 



iLefier Gannet, Gen. Syn. vi. p, 61 1. N' 26 i 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZEof a Duck: length twenty inches. Bill flrait, as in the 

 Gannet, and fhaped like it ; colour reddilh brown, with a duflcy 

 or black point ; the bafe, and fkin round the eye, of a deep red. 

 The plumage is wholly white, except the wings, fcapulars, and 

 middle of the back, which are duflcy, and the quills black : the 

 tail is even at the end : legs blood red. 



I apprehend this bird to be a variety of the Lejfer Gannet. It 

 differs chiefly in being fmaller, and in having the tail feathers 

 white throughout, which in the other are only white at the bafe, 

 the refl: of the length being black. 



• Sj». vol. vi. p. 6j^.—Jr3, ZooJ. vol. iii p. 583, 



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