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SULA BASSANA. 



(GANNET.) 



Sula major, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 497 (1760). 



Sula bassana, Briss. torn. cit. p. 503, pi. xliv. (1760). 



Pelecanus bassanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 217 (1766). 



Le grand Fou, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 372 (1781). 



Le Fou tachete, Buff. torn. cit. p. 376 (1781). 



Le Fou de Hassan, Buff. torn. cit. p. 375 (1781). 



Pelecanus punctatus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, tab. 10 (1786). 



Pelecanus maculatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 579 (1788, ex Buff). 



Sula alba, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 582 (1810). 



Bysporus, Illig. {Pelecanus bassanus, Linn.) Prodr. p. 279 (1811). 



Moris bassana (L.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 35 (1816). 



Morus bassanus (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xii. p. 39 (1817). 



Sula major, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 812 (1831). 



Sula americana, Bp. Comp. List, p. 60 (1838). 



Bysporus bassanus (L.), J. F. Naumann, Naturg. Vog. Deutscbl. xi. p. 14 (1842). 



Le Foib intermediaire, Lefevre, Naumannia, 1851, part 4, p. 38. 



Sula lefevri, Baldamus, Naumannia, 1851, part 4, p. 38, footnote. 



Solan Goose, Gannet, English; Sulaire, Gaelic; Fou de Bassan, French; Ganso-patola, 

 Portuguese ; Alcatraz, Spanish ; Bou-grana, Moorish ; Bass-TUpel, weisser Tolpel, German ; 

 de Jan van Gent, Dutch ; Hav-Sule, Tossefugl, Danish ; Sula, Fseroese ; Kuksuk, Green- 

 landic ; Sula, Hafsula, Icelandic ; Sule, Norwegian ; Hafs Sula, Sillebas, Swedish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 278, 986 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 51b, Suppl. taf. 34; Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl. taf. 278; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 55. figs. 4, 5; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 412; 

 id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 54 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pis. 322, 323 ; Koux, Orn. Pro v. pi. 343 ; 

 Audub. B. of Am. p. 326. 



d ad. albus, capite et collo rufescente isabellino tinctis, remigibus nigris^ Cauda, cuneata : rostro pallide livido- 

 cseruleo, regione oculari nuda nigricante : iride flava : pedibus virescentibus. 



Juv. capite, collo et corpore supra fumoso-nigricanti-fuscis albo guttatis, remigibus et rectricibus nigro-fuscis : 

 corpore subtiis albido, fumoso fusco notato : rostro livido-fusco. 



Adult Male (Bass Rock) . Entire plumage pure wbite, except that the head and neck are tinged with warm 

 cream-colour and the quills are black ; tail cuneate ; bill pale livid ; blue space round the eye blackish ; 



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