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Great Britain ; amongst them the Bass Eock, Ailsa Craig, and 

 Lundy Island may be mentioned *. 



The G-annet, like the Cormorant, has a slightly distensible 

 naked portion of skin at the top of the throat in front, extending 

 to the underside of the bill. This is greatly exaggerated in a 

 Bird which is entirely strange to our own climes, though a 

 common inhabitant of our Zoological Gardens. "We refer to 



Fig. 25. 



The Common Gannet 



the Pelican {Pelecanus onocrotaliis), the unwieldy form and 

 awkward gait of which, as well as its long bill with the great 

 bag of skin beneath it and in front of the throat, must have 

 strongly impressed every one who has seen it. Unwieldy 

 as it is, and very web-footed, it is fond of perching on trees. 

 It inhabits Africa and the "Western and Central parts of Asia 



* Thousands breed at St. Kilda. 



