GANNET. 
SOLAN GOOSE. 
SULA B.A.SSANA, 
Ch.\r. Prevailing color white ; head and neck washed with buff; 
■outer wing-feathers (primaries) black. Length about 34 or 36 inches. 
The young birds arc dusky brown, spotted all over with white. 
Nest. On a cliff of an ocean island, — made of sea-weed and grass. 
I ; chalky white, inner shell pale blue , average size 3 to X 1.90. 
The Gannet is another of the many marine birds common to 
both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer season these 
birds are extremely abundant on some rocky isles in the Bay 
of the St. Lawrence, and not uncommon on the coasts of the 
United States, especially to the south of Cape Hatteras. 
On the south side of Long Island and the neighboring coast 
they are seen in numbers in the month of October associat- 
ing with the Velvet and Scoter Ducks, In the summer 
they also penetrate into the .\rctic regions of both conti- 
nents, are seen on the coast of Newfoundland, and occasionally 
in Greenland. In Iceland they breed and are seen in great 
flocks. They are also equally common to the northwest coast 
of America. 
