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of that island; and it is somewhat sur- 
prising that it should have remained so long 
unnoticed in the neighbourhood of so many 
naturalists as Edinburgh contains: the 
flesh was eaten, and found to be entirely 
destitute of that rancid smell and taste that 
effect the generality of the Corvorant tribe. 
I have observed what appeared to me to 
be the same species, on Lambay Island, 
on the east coast of Ireland." 
