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PELICANID.E. 
ATATORES. 
PELICANIDjE. 
PLATE CCLXXXVIII. 
GANNET. 
SULA BASSANA. 
The Gan net is not only a periodical visitant on the 
coast of Great Britain, but so numerous in some parts, 
that the owners of the land they frequent let the privi¬ 
lege of taking this bird for considerable sums; the Bass 
Rock in the Frith of Forth, for instance, is let for sixty 
to seventy pounds per annum, according to Mr. Selby’s 
statement. The most noted rocky spots in which the 
Gannet is very numerous are Ailsa Craig at the mouth 
of the Frith of Clyde; St. Kilda; Saulirkerry near the 
Orkneys; the Skelig Isles on the coast of Ireland, and 
the Bass Rock before mentioned. 
This species is of frequent occurrence throughout the 
north of Europe, Asia, and America; it extends rarely 
further north than the middle of Norway, and the south 
of Greenland ; it is frequent on the southern coast of 
Iceland, but not so on the northern ; the Faroe and 
Orkades are regularly visited by this bird. In America 
it extends from Greenland to the middle of the United 
States. 
