ess. GANNET CORVORANT. Class II. 



fish resembling, if not the same with, our 

 Pilchard. 



I have in the month of August observed in 

 Cathness their northern migrations : I have 

 seen them passing the whole day in flocks, 



• from five to fifteen in each : in calm weather 

 they fly high ; in storms they fly low and near 

 > ' . the shore, but never cross over the land, even 

 Tv^hen a bay with promontories intervenes, but 

 follow, at an equal distance, the course of the 

 bay, and regularly double every cape. I have 

 seen many of the parties make a sort of hah 

 for the sake of fishing : they soared to a vast 

 height, then darting headlong into the sea, made 

 the water foam and spring up with the vio- 

 lence of their descent; after which they pur- 

 sued their route. I enquired whether they ever 

 were observed to return southward in the 

 spring, but was answered in the negative, so it 

 appears that they annually encircle the whole 

 island. 



They are well known on most of our coasts 



Name, but not by the name of the Soland-Goose. In 



Cornwall and in Ireland they are called Gan- 



nets ; by the TVelsJi, Gan. The excellent Mr. 



Ray supposed the Cornish Gannet to be a spe- 



' cies of large Gull ; a very excusable mistake, 

 for during his six months residence in Corn- 



