. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . bare. As in the Cormorants, the feet are placed farback and the tarsus alone is bare. The changes of plumageundergone by the Gannets is, however, quite different to thatof the Cormorants. Gannets are found all over the world, butdo not go very far to the north or south. THE TRUE GANNETS. GENUS DYSPORUS. Dysporus^ Ihiger, Prodr. p. 279 (1811). Type, D. bass anus (L.). I. THE GANNET. DYSPORUS BASSANUS. Pelecanus bassanns, Linn. S. N. i. p. 217 (1766). Sida bassana, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 405 (1852); Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 181, pi. 392 (1880); B. O. U. Lis
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . bare. As in the Cormorants, the feet are placed farback and the tarsus alone is bare. The changes of plumageundergone by the Gannets is, however, quite different to thatof the Cormorants. Gannets are found all over the world, butdo not go very far to the north or south. THE TRUE GANNETS. GENUS DYSPORUS. Dysporus^ Ihiger, Prodr. p. 279 (1811). Type, D. bass anus (L.). I. THE GANNET. DYSPORUS BASSANUS. Pelecanus bassanns, Linn. S. N. i. p. 217 (1766). Sida bassana, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 405 (1852); Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 181, pi. 392 (1880); B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 106 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarr. Br. B. iv. p. 155 (1884); Seebohm, Br. B. iii. p. 643 (1885); Saunders, Man. Br. B. p. 353 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. part xii. (1890). {Plafe Lin.) Adult Male.—General colour above and below pure white,with a tinge of ochreous-buff on the head and neck; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primary-quills black; tail-featherswhite, with yellowish shafts; bill pale bluish-grey, tinged with. THE GANNETS. 219 green at the base; bare space round the eyes, lines on the gular space black; feet brownish-black, the scales lightgreenish-blue or emerald-green; claws greyish-white; iris paleyellowish-white. Total length, 33 inches ; culmen, 3-85 ; wing,18-4; tail, 8*3; tarsus, 2-1. Adult Pemale.—Similar to the male. Young Birds.—When first hatched the nestlings are bare andslaty-black in colour, with the bill and naked region of the eyeblack. As they progress they become covered with densewhite down. The full plumage of the young bird is greyish-brown, spotted with white, each feather having a triangularspot at the end, these spots being very numerous on the headand neck; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills areblackish, rather more ashy on the inner webs, the innermostsecondaries tipped with white; tail-feathers black, with whiteshafts; throat greyish-brown, spotted with white like the uppersurface; remainder of und
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