BROWN GANNET. 105 



The young have the head and neck white, slightly 

 tinged with brown. 



Common on the coasts of the warmer parts of 

 America, particularly in the Bahama Islands, and off 

 the Brasilian coast. They are described as being very 

 silly stupid birds, from thence their name : they build 

 their nests on the ground occasionally, but prefer 

 constructing them on trees : their flesh is very dark- 

 coloured, rank, and disagreeable, though frequently 

 eaten by mariners. 



BROWN GANNET. 



(Sula Fiber.) 



Su. corpore Juscescente, facie rubra, remigibus omnibus nigrican- 



tibus. 

 Gannet with the body brownish, the face red, and all the quills 



dusky. 

 Pelecanus Fiber. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 218. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



579. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 893. 

 Sula fusca. Briss. Orn. 6. 499. pi. 43. f. 1. 

 Anser bassano congener cinereo-albus. Raii Syn. 191. 

 Brown Booby. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 613. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 441. 



Length rather more than two feet : beak three 

 inches and three quarters long, reddish ; and slightly 

 serrated on the edges: naked space round the eyes 

 red : the prevailing colour of the plumage is pale 

 ashy-brown, with the back and scapulars darkest, 

 and the under parts palest : the greater quills are 



