. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . rRIGATE PEUCAN. 596 THE GANNET, OR SOLAN GOOSE. ficiently dry to enable the feathers to imbibe the oil, they press thisBubstance from the receptacle on their rumps, and dress the featherswith it. It is only in one particular state that the oily matter can bespread on them—when they are so
. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . rRIGATE PEUCAN. 596 THE GANNET, OR SOLAN GOOSE. ficiently dry to enable the feathers to imbibe the oil, they press thisBubstance from the receptacle on their rumps, and dress the featherswith it. It is only in one particular state that the oily matter can bespread on them—when they are somewhat damp; and the instinct ofthe birds teaches them the proper COKVOBANTS. The skins of Corvorants are very tough, and are used by the Green-landers, when sewed together and put into proper form, for the skin of the jaws serves that people for bladders to buoy uptheir smaller kinds of fishing darts. In China great numbers of tamoCorvorants are taught to catch fish for the benefit of their owners. Thebirds so employed are kept in a state of captivity from the moment oftheir birth. When old enough, they are taken to the water side, taught to bring to their master the fishes they procure. THE GANNET, OR SOLAN GOOSE. These birds are insatiably voracious, and yet they are somewhat par-ticular in their choice of prey, disdaining, unless in great want, to worse than Herring or Mackerel. No fewer than one hundredthousand Gannets are supposed to frequent the rocks of St. Kilda; andof these, including the young ones, at least twenty thousand are annually THE GANNET, OR SOLAN GOOSE. tilled hv the inhabitants for food. Al
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