*i very fevere, and it ferves to the peafant as a fign, that the
“ cold will- be intenfe, and the fnow abundant. This happened
“ in the year 1796, according to Dr. Eklund’s * obfervation, who
“ had the goodncfs to procure me a fpecimen of this bird, which
<f was hitherto quite unknown. At.firit fight it feems to refem-
‘‘ g the common pie, but it is lefs by one-fourth part, and dif-
“ fers from it in its manners and habits. The tail tapers to a
“ point, the feathers being of unequal length : the feathers of the
“ belly, the upper part and points of the wings, are white ; the
“ neck, breaft, the fore part of the wings, the thighs, and the tail,
“ of an afh-colour, with this difference, however, that the tail is
“ more light above : the beak and the legs are black.”
There is a peculiar kind of fowl-commonly found in the woods
throughout Finmark .and. all Norway, which i'ccms to be a‘variety
of the builard or dotterel. T o the male the Norwegians give
the name of todder, which they pronounce as if written dotter ;
the female they call roey. T h e male is about the fize of a full-
grown turkey of the largeft breed, and like that fowl he occa-
fionally fpreads his tail and fhakes his wings : his belly has black
and white feathers, his back and wings are of an afh-colour.
The hen is not fo large as the cock ; her wings and body have
feathers of a dufky yellow, with fpots. The fleih of this fowl is
equally efleemed with that of the common builard.
Partridges are very numerous; .they are of two forts, the one
* Dr. Eklund is a diflinguiihed ornithologift, and particularly converfant with
the Swediih birds.
frequenting