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out of thofe Teas. It is probable that thefc birds attend 

 the herring and pilchard during their whole circuit 

 round the Britifh iflands •, the appearance of the for- 

 mer being always efteemed by the fifhermen as a fure 

 prefage of the approach of the latter. It migrates in 

 queft of food as far fouth, as the mouth of the Tag:(s y 

 being frequently feen off Lisbon during the month of 

 December, plunging for Sardine, fifli refembling, 

 if not the fame with our Pilchard. 



They are well known on mod of our coafts ; but 

 not by the name of the Soland-Goofe. In Cornwal and 

 in Ireland they are called Gannets ; by the Welfh Gan. 

 The excellent Mr. Ray fuppofed the Corni/h Gannet to 

 be a fpecies of large Gull ; a very excufable miftake, 

 for during his fix months refidence in Cornwall he 

 never had an opportunity of feeing that bird, except 

 flying ; and in the air it has the appearance of a Gull. 

 On that fuppofition he gave our Skua, p. 4 1 7. the title of 

 Cataratta, a name borrowed from Arifiotle*, and which 

 admirably exprerTes the rapid defcent of this bird on 

 its prey. Mr. Moyle firft detected the miftakef ; and 

 the Rev. Doctor William Borlafe, by prefenting us with 

 a fine fpecimen of this bird, confirms the opinion of 

 Mr. Moyle-, at the fame time he favored us with fa 

 accurate an account of fome part of the natural hiftory 

 of this bird, that we fh.aH ufe the liberty he indulged 

 us with, of adding it to this defcription. 



46 The Gannet comes on the coafts of Cornwal in the 

 "latter end of fummer, or beginning of autumn; 

 " hovering over the (hoals of pilchards that come 



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