SOLAND GANNET. 101 



Syn. 6. 608. Leiv. Brit. Birds, 6. pi. 265. Wale. Syn. I. 



pi. 94. Mont. Orn. Bid. 1. and Sup. Bern. Brit. Birds, 2. 



393. Mont. Wemerian Trails, i. 176. Bingl. Anim. Biog. 



ii. 358. Wood's Zpograph. I. p. 561. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



433. 

 Young. — Sula major. Briss. Orn. 6. 697. 

 Grand Fou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 372. 

 Great. Booby. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 610. A. 

 Pelecanus maculatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 579. 

 Fou tachete. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 375. Buff. PL Enl. 986. 

 Spotted Booby. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 614. 



Length about two feet nine inches : the beak is 

 ashy-blue at its base, but white at its tip : the naked 

 membrane which surrounds the eyes is bright bluish ; 

 the membrane which forms the prolongation of the 

 opening of the beak, and that which extends to the 

 middle of the throat, are bluish-black : the irides are 

 yellow : the top of the head and the occiput are of a 

 bright yellow ochre : the rest of the plumage is milk 

 white, except the quills and bastard wings, which are 

 black : the upper part of the toes and fore part of 

 the tarsi are clear green ; the membranes are dusky ; 

 claws white : the tail conical in form. The female is 

 somewhat less in size, but resembles the male in co- 

 lour. The young, immediately upon leaving the eggs, 

 are clothed with a shining white down : during the 

 first year all the plumage of the upper parts is of a 

 uniform blackish -brown ; of the under parts brown, 

 varied with ash-colour : the beak, naked space of the 

 head, and irides brown : the tail is rounded. After 

 the second moult, or the age of one year, the head, the 

 neck, and breast, are of an ashy-brown, thickly covered 

 with small lance-shaped white spots ; the feathers of 



