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Name. 
GANNET CORVORANT. Cxzass Ii. 
fish resembling, if not the same with, our 
Pilchard. | yt 
T have in the month of August observed in 
Cathness their northern migrations: Ihave 
seen them passing the whole day in flocks, 
from five to fifteen in each: in calm weather 
they fly high; in storms they fly low and near 
the shore, but never cross over the land, even 
when a bay with promontories intervenes, but 
follow, at an equal distance, the course of the 
bay, and regularly double every cape. I have 
seen many of the parties make a sort of halt 
for the sake of fishing: they soared to a vast 
height, then darting headlong into the sea, made 
the water foam and spring up with the vio- 
lence of their descent; after which they pur- 
sued their route. I enquired whether they ever 
were observed to return southward in the 
spring, but was answered in the negative, so it 
appears that they annually encircle the whole 
island. 
They are well known on most of our coasts 
but not by the name of the Soland-Goose. In 
Cornwall and in Ireland they are called Gan- 
nets; by the Welsh, Gan. ‘The excellent Mr. 
Ray supposed the Cornish Gannet to be a spe- 
_cies of large Gull; a very excusable mistake, 
for during his six months residence in Corn- 
