GANNET.
COMMON GANNET. SOI.AN GOOSE. SOLAN I» GOOSE.
Sula alba, FLEMING.
" bassana, SELHY. JENYNS. GOULD.
Pehcanus bassanus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK.
Sula. Sulao—To rob or spoil. Alba—White.
T H E Gannet, in Europe, is frequent in Norway, Sweden, the Perroe
Isles, and Iceland, and thence advances to Portugal, Spain, and t he
Mediterranean generally. It thus occurs on the northern shores of
Africa. In Asia it is equally common, and is also assigned to South
Africa and Madeira. In America it extends from Greenland and
Labrador to the United States, as far south as Carolina it is said,
and probably still further.
Ganncts breed in immense numbers on Ailsa Crag, in the F i r th of
Clyde; the liass Hock, in the F i r t h of F o r t h ; the Stack of Souliskcrry,
near the Orkney Islands; lîorca and St. Kilda, in t he Hebrides; Lundy
Island, in the Bristol Channel; and t he Skclig Isles, off the coast of
Ireland.
The Solan Goose has not unfrequentlv been met with quite inland.
Thus one was shot in Fulbourn Fields, Cambridgeshire, the latter end
of September, 1852. One was caught near "Wisbeach, in the same
county, in 1843; it was in company with some tame Geese. Two
others, males, apparently exhausted after a gale from the north-east,
in the summer of 1819. Joseph 11. Tittle, Esq., of St. J o h n ' s College,
(Cambridge, has written rac word of one which was shot in January,
1853, at Eldcrwell, near AVhittlcsca, also in Cambridgeshire, at least twenty
miles from the sea. He says in another letter, that they occasionally
stray so far inland. Mr. M. C. Cooke informs me of one found in a
field at Swanscombe, in Kent, in the spring of 1847. Another was
obtained at Frensham Pond, near Farnham, Surrey. A young one