Crass Il, GANNETT CORVORANT. 
many characters of this bird: he says, that the 
bill is toothed, that its eyes are fiery, and that 
its color is white; and in the very name is ex- 
pressed its furious descent on its prey. The rest 
of his accounts savors of fable. . | 
We are uncertain whether the Gannet breeds 
in any other parts of Hurope besides our own 
islands; except (as Mr. Ray suspects) the Suda, 
described in Clusius’s Eotics, which breeds in 
the Ferroe Isles, be the same bird.. In America 
there are two species of birds of this genus, 
that bear a great resemblance to it in their ge- 
neral form and their manner of preying. Mr. 
Catesby has given the figure of the head of one, 
which he calls the Greater Booby ; his descrip- 
tion suits that of the young Gannet; but the 
angle on the lower mandible made us formerly 
suspect that it was not the same bird; from 
some late informations we have been favored 
with, we find it is common to both countries, 
and during summer frequents North America. 
Like the Penguin, it informs navigators of. the 
approach of soundings, who on sight of it drop 
the plummet. - Linnéus classes our bird with 
the Pelecan ; in the tenth edition of his system, 
he confounds it with the bird described by Sir 
Hans Sloane, hist. Jam. vol. i. p. 31. preface, 
whose colors differ from the Gannet in each 
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