gratig avem emerfuram elfe, præviæ ia aqùa ebuTik-iènes mon«
ftraftt ; âtqué ij:a oapijfi extra aquam exferto laqoeum iöSaimt;
Quseres, quem in ufum earn noftri homines aucupenfrur ? Garnem
quidem miàus in deiieiis habent ; exuvias autem, peékori capiti-
que contra injurias hyemis mumendis; appètünt 8t conquirent. In-
fignetn enim diâis corporis humaiii partibus, öb plumarum deli-
catam mollitiem ac denfitatem, operam prædant. - Gapiti quidem
talé ex iis faciunt tegmen, quali vulgus aoliçorum plurimum
utuntur, vulgus a Kabbutz fua lingua vocat. ' Peöori -fbmëntüm
longé fafuberrimum præbet, adeo ut vel eygnó; cujus apüd di-»
tiores exuviæ multo in* pretiOÿî nihil cedat.
The Lund, or Lund-Talle, the Anas Ar&ica, or Pope, is a
middie-fiz’d Sea-bird, fomçthing larger than a Pidgeon, black and
white, and on account of his beak, is-bailed by feme the Nerve-
gian Parrot for. it is pretty large, and hooked like a Parlors,
tho’ thinner and broader, and ftriped prettily with yellow, red,
and black. .This bill is fo fliarp, that when he bites any of the
bird-catchers he takes off a large piece of flefhk^lbis Claws are
alfo very (harp, with which, and his beak, he defends himfelf
againft the Raven, his enemy, whom he holds by the throat,
^nd will carry him out to fea, and drown him,, before he loofes
his fiokL This Bird builds bis neft,1 ties on its
back) not always alike, but according to the fitMtidh ’o f the
place ; for i f it be low, then it will make a flaiiting hole in
the ground two or three elfe deep ; but i f it bS-rocks and cliffs,
then the Bird looks for holes between the cracks and openings:
fometimes alfo* it builds between great ftones, that are
broke out, or Toofened on the fides of thefe rocks, and • where
it is the mod difficult to get at them. The farmers have particular
dogs, broke on purpofe for their fervice, to go in, and pull
out the firft they can lay hold o f by the wings, where they are
together in fcöres, or fometimes one or two hundred together :
their way is, that when one is laid hold of, and drawn out, he
bites faft hold o f his next neighbour, and draws him with him;
and all laying hold in the fame manner, that they muft alb be
drawn out, and killed. If the hole be not Very deep, or the
rock not fo deep but that the bird-catcher can get at it, then
they ufe a long dick to drive them out ; this has a (harp hook at
the end.
Lucas Debes writes, p. 137, that on Farroe they alfo catch
thefe Birds, when they come from fea and feek their ned, with
a net fpread on a pole, and kept open with a crofs dick, „into
which they carelefsly fly ; this .way they catch fometimes 2,60 in
. N A T EfR A L HI S T O R Y of N O RTF A Y.
a day*. • .Th®t^aA)^%/6-sKof.'-oiBs'1«$g-dt #-4ime, which is H|
big again as one would imagine, in proportion to the bignefs qf\
its body ;• and is o f ;a brownifh colour. I f this be taken away
from her, then fhe lays another, but has hardly time to rear the
young one to perfedion hy bringing it fifh, fo that they com«
mealy perifh 5 and the mother follows the flight when the time:
comes, namely, juft before, or jud1 after O k if d^> ^ h ^ they,
all together leave thefe parts, after having been here from the
beginning of the month of April. What time, they remain in
NordJand, particularly on Rod and Vaeroen, where they are
found in the greated numbers; or whether they winter there, I
do: not know. They are a very cleanly Bird, for when they
leave their ned, they clean it, and ferape away all the foulpefs j
irid then drew grafs ’over it, that they may find fit the.next ygas
in proper order; they are very valuable for their feather?, which
are exported, particularly from Nordland, in vad quantities,. and
bear a very good p r ic e th e y are reckoned the next in good?
nefs and foftnefs to the Edderfugl *|-, Mr. Peder Dafs defgribei
this Bird, in his Nordland Trompet, p, 8z,pyetty fully 5 and
Franc. Willughbeius, who fpeaking of the Scotch Jflands, where
this Bird, together with many other of the Sea-Birds bplpnging to
this country are found, fays, that when there happens op their
padage ip the Autumn, to come ftorray and bad weather, fo that -
they cannot move away, many perifh with hunger and . fatigqe,
and'are found dead in heaps by the fifhing-men: there have
been found alfo fome of them under Water, feemingly as if afleep,
or in a date o f infenfibility; and wheat drawn np .by the fifherr
men, has come to-.itfelf, and flew to land again*» '.From this one
may' conclude that the Londen, like the Swallow, - may lie in a
. trance, or date of infenfibility, under the water. See Ornitbpfog.
Lib. iii. cap. v. p. 145.
S B C T. III.
The Maageor Gull, called here Maafe, is a well-known Stfandr Maagel
Bird of yaridds fpecies, yet all of one gen&$4 fo? they all five
fipon -final! fifh, infe£ts, fea-weeds, or the like; indeed pn any
* This circumftance makes me almoft think that our Nofvegpan'Liind is sot fo
fugacious by day as by night.’ Jtris, without doubtj.jhe fame Bird that-Pere Labat
delmbes in his Voyage aux Ifles de l’Amerique, Tom. ii. p. 349. .«ailing .'k-Biable or£
IMablotin •, dhe other piopeAes^as »Mb Ms time departing from his abode, and the
trouhje he gives to catch him in the cracks of'tbefteep rocks, ail agree.
■ 'if Many ©ftheT^ordfaftdfarmer,sifliathave^ares:.'ia *k fociq. hiake it,their cjiief
maintenance,' and «vdn growrich and confiderabk in thejr ftati^d ifihpy keep many
dogsV tho’ their neighbours will take -ca#e that diey/hall not, by keeping too many,
deprive thedi of their advantages; neither is this fvjffofel by the'government.