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from others taken on the same and two or three adjoining ledges. On the immature plumage being assumed 
later in the autumn not the slightest signs of the white markings round the eye were exhibited, and though the 
bird survived in captivity for three or four years, no change took place. The fo owing year an o ii 
caught with her young one on the Bass by the men who look after the roping business to secure the Gannets, 
and forwarded safely to Brighton. Both thrived well in confinement, and the adult showed the ling ti ler 
death about four years afterwards ; the young one, however, was not to be distinguished from several others 
procured at the same time. In the Channel I have seen these birds very plentiful on several occasions , numbers 
were passed sufficiently near to be identified, and a fine pair in perfect breeding-plumage obtained, eight or nine 
miles off Brighton, on the 23rd of April, 1881, the water at the time being as smooth as glass and affording 
excellent opportunities for observation. In the perfect winter dress the white ring and bridle are still eonspicuou^ 
a narrow line of dull black enclosing the bridle. A bird exhibiting this stage of plumage was shot off 
Kottin£?dean on December 1878. 
