If the wing of a gannet, just shot, be removed and made to flap in what the operator believes to be a strictly vertical downward direction, the tip of the wing, in spite of him, will dart forwards between 2 and 3 ft.
Gannet, " Dictionary of Elevations " (1898), and " River Profiles," publications of United States Geological Survey; G.
Gannet, " Forests of the United States"; idem, Both Annual Report, pt.
The sea-birds include a great variety of gulls, guillemots, cormorants, albatrosses (four species), fulmars and petrels, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence the gannet is very abundant.
