396 
(VarR.) 
SuLA. 
GANNET CORVORANT. Crass II. 
stage of life: but in his last edition he very: 
properly separates them. We continue it in 
the same class, under the generical name of 
Corvorants, as more familiar to the English 
ear than that of Pelecan.* 
Tuts variety of the Gannet was sent to 
me in August 1779, by Hugh Stodart, Esq. 
of Treganwy, in Caernarvonshire. 1 do not 
recollect that it has been observed in Europe 
since the days of Dr. Hoier, a physician at 
Bergen, who procured it from the Ferroe Isles, 
and transmitted it to his friend Clustus. 
This bird differs from the common Gan- 
net only in those particulars: in having some 
of the secondaries feathers black; and the mid- 
dle feathers of the tail of the same color : where- 
as both, in the common sort, are entirely white. 
* The Gannet is supplied with singular pellucid air-cells 
which connect the skin with the body, giving it a power of in- 
flation, which materially contributes to its buoyancy in air and 
water, and enables it to float in the most tempestuous sea in per- 
fect security, when in pursuit of its prey. Montagu in Memoirs 
of Wernerian Society. 
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