Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
±jiras u C.H.Merriam. 
170 . Sula bassana(Z,/»».) Bnss 
from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
Gannet.—A ccidental straggler 
Bua n.o.o. a.oct, X88i, p, 235 
Occurrence of the Gannet (Sula bassana) in Northern New 
York. — On the lOtli of last December a strange bird was seen swim¬ 
ming in the Grasse River at Canton, New York, about eighteen miles 
from the St. Lawrence River. It was apparently in an exhausted con¬ 
dition. It remained in the vicinity, and was soon caught alive by a person 
who sold it to my brother, J. C. Lee. By him it was identified as the 
Common Gannet (Sula bassana). It was very weak and unable to fly, 
but would walk across the floor, and occasionally stretch and flap its 
wings. It was evidently suffering from hunger, but it refused to eat any¬ 
thing placed before it, fish being unobtainable. It died during the follow¬ 
ing night. It was a male, and not more than two or three years old, 
according to DeKay’s description. The measurements almost exactly 
coincided with those given by DeKay. 
The occurrence of this sea-bird in a region so far from the ocean is 
remarkable, but he evidently followed up the course of the St. Lawrence 
River from the Gulf and the breeding places of the species in Labrador. 
— Leslie A. Lee, Brunswick, Me. 
Bull. N.O.O. 5, July, 1880, p. /<?0 . 
363. Another Gannet (Sula bassana) from the interior «f New York 
State. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D. Ibid., VI, p. 96.—The “Cormorant 
y 1 -fi i'f (Graculus carbo mentioned at p. 39, Vol. VI, of the O. and O. (see 
above, No. 302) as shot at Saratoga Lake announced to be really Sula 
bassana! 
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