II. 
SOLAN GOOSE OR GANNET. 
Ihb bird from which the head of the Solan Goose was drawn, was found quite 
recently dead on the shore near the mouth of Loch Ailort, where we generally 
see a few in Autumn and in rough weather. We conjecture that this bird, and 
others which we have found in similar circumstances, had been killed in plunging 
from a great height into the sea, as these birds do when fishing. 
