WHITE GANNET. 



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inhabitants of the islands where these birds breed 

 derive considerable emolument from the produce of 

 their eggs, to obtain which they undergo the most 

 fearful risks. Where it is possible, they climb up the 

 rocks where they are laid, and in doing this, they pass 

 along paths so narrow and difficult, as, in appearance, 

 to allow them barely room to cling, and that too at 

 a prodigious height over a raging sea. Where this 

 cannot be done, they are lowered by a rope from the 

 top, and unterrified, ransack all the nests within their 

 reach, and then, by means of a pole and rope, move 

 off to other places to do the same. 



An interesting account of the anatomical structure 

 , of this bird is given by Montagu in the Wernerian 

 Transactions, above quoted. 



WHITE GANNET. 



(Sula Candida.) 



Su. corpore albo^ facie ruhrd, remigibus omnibus nigris. 

 Gannet with the body white, the face red^ and the quills black. 

 Pelecanus piscator. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1.217. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 



578. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 892. 

 Sula Candida. Briss. Orn. 6. 501. 

 Le Fou blanc. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 371. 

 Lesser Gannet. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 611. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



437. 



Length two feet seven inches : beak serrated on 

 its edges and reddish : naked space round the eyes 



