They are fhot, or catch’d in nçts, or under a heavy board let up
for that purpofe : they are 4nought-3to* mis town in the Winter
by thousands, and arc put up half roaffied;!i#JfirfeSs,
away to dther cfountries : their flelh, next t<r=t.hfc .G'ipwfe -and
Erancolin, jis the beft of any ;Wild*fokE we;havej efpeeially -when
they aireiihot ; for w h e n ’ fmothered, the blood
mains in them, andifheyr neither look! rior -jeafj ( he ;§upjr
nier: they’live .upon berries, tops of trees, àftd other greçnsybut
in the! Win ter they do,a& hâs'beenlàid of the GroiVfe. They
feekseove'mng andjwgrmfhqbyhuryiügv$hen^l;V,es in |the ..dçepèift
firow, jvsherpcjdiey; fit in great heaps; together, taking .a, m^gapne
of fodd with’them in their ;cmp$,;by ftuifing j them-as. fuller they’
can with elm and birch-tops, fo that their breafts ftand outj’aijd
makes .them look as big
themfelyestill the folloWihgjSpring; rTbià!pa^Çftfe? I fiavç from
QL Magi}» Ja‘. lÊîwasv;fenolvhdf.lfeSQî^rh3®Kiiaîld£is
quoted^èilhisThÿficp^heolpgj^.^ibf ïgïMl ahiijiftatfcgf^tjhe,
Almightyiand. MifeGreaton’-a^afes |fer thofèr;t^ g § j^hatf spj^f rwhfe
woufd pefilhf Thdîf^tHdggiis# iîatipialmdîpêot4 }#^fev'^giaîl
Rkdy ^d;belôngSftd tb®îP psrlfsp&r^tfe®? §fu^tSJï $
mufbob^fye.that they.aredireqndnL^thpVnfit
Frùffiap Cpuflànd and SwiJ^riand^Çî ||f *ÀtJV Jac. Klein, whom &
have often ; quoted, lpeaks : of therflyi in;. bis Hiftqrj* AympÉi p.
x f& 'j thuaî-.;,I^gepftgjrr'FiaBlripofk'^nj^x?p9fc, T^fra$fe ^ J fcS p s
altibus intermediis nigris, âpiçe âlbis, Tinn; F.’ Suec.;dçbnee^;Hen,
Haflèl Hen, with H^reV yfèet,; paulufmajQreft fùûfrjatl^gpnibus
noftris, plantis pedum quoque villofis’,;-prout pedfsàeporum.
Ejufmodi ut in Curlandia, nec non
tate Tilfit, immoÆif Alpibûs HelyetiçisjalhfqUPy Nonnullâ^jdie
%oiZ Jan..ci747j ex Prufl^ acqeptâs 'habui, quarutn alteram-fo^am
albam, praeter roftfum,ipferam eaudam;&iex|^aphosremigum, delineari
curabam. Ungùesbâbent latoS,Cpi]iea.'fQa^c‘ Utrumin Prpflîa
yerno &C autnmnali temporibus fimiliter. çqloxes^mtitfiitîliagopi
proprie diâi, pro certp afhçmare nQp]aufini. “
on thê Fyrçi|qapjponptai&%c#Pd. flyffip ffi%jrç5fps
in qiieft-.cjf lhe ite ràndEfrow, which ’thejy love. Thisis at-
tefted by GalparieJSqhotti,-in his Phyfîca Çuripfà, fix.jiG^pv
48, Jp. 1009, Répçtipfttgr Lagopodes;
montibus & in fummis jugis. In frigore, nive SC glacie delec-
tatttufy nt ubi locis inferioribus liqiMfth r nlvea, altidta'Ao fbji
averfk pétant ï'oca, xa quibus nix perennat. ' Latent: homme con-
* Dr, Shàw defçribes theAfrican Bird which-he callsrlütavianj fomething like Ry-
pen, ïhough of à quite different colour. See his Voyage du Levant, Tom. 1, p. 32*7.
fpecfo
fpe&ü &-£akéhfc1 rnöéu* ft^ptbdere. 1 Taiitse fitnp'licitatis hint, ut a
vena'toribus-difpofi.tanü 'Mpidum' feïieiy.ttai'ifit^ noii^ödeant, '&c.
The laft words pxlt 'me jn mind, that in'dnany' other'places they
make ffcöne walls w:ithbut -ftiortar, which1 the1 Partridges iwill not
go dver j but fi^re ih hïotway^he favmers’make a kind of aTenefe
ih they put Jthei# fnare»^
into which' thé fillv "Birds riih, “and are'caü^it.155^
The HaWkas^¥^eat'm®y %) tKdrrt, and they aVe fo frightned
b^'ïhat Bird fometahes,ldh^t'¥hey fly-'irltb the hands of men;
but they do Wot find thetnfelybs there better protected.
■ "'TEhér SaötRafi^fW i Nófvë^ïM Bifdy hhknown to me y whifcbs^^ra^
J. Ramus, amongft qthers, only names, p. 2,49.
r::Tfie Sahdtklf%r Lapwiii^'f called %lfo Tenddlob, 4 s, without sanctaf. ;'
doubt, the'Fame ’as ïs: óthefwife (called by a fhorter name, Ten;
This- l $ $ i ® ’föft of;.
Strand Gulls,-thb^'Very eiit from1 thole forts before defcrib’d ;
they are not rrear fc laTge‘ Jand are moll like the fmdller kind»
In «èldiikthë^ lr§WmeWhat; fHce-i btoë Gull, whitfe'Underfieath^
With' rilfee2 8bckïiftldhë^ W thé* kktfdiSSty1 bl their "wftfgs %hd
tail ; ah'dppfi'^teyir;-* might^ ]p^6ty -tlttlfe black
éfbwn^ a ^ëdlöïrgifh bhlbr‘ffian'réd 'legs;' and; Jtrft abóVè their
a -TmalF ¥ed: inarKi111'
* ' Thïl'Bifd; rettiéiM?bhré'htorê^a''flxMtt
Mldfütnmei*-klay ufifil Atffumn, 'and lays’ lft the mean f iMe three
gtdy Tpéttêd e^gs^|ltke'Ptóedösi èg^s: dxi eight days thfe--yoöng
are hatch’d^’ afid" itiJa vefj? few more are fully able tb pipoyide fö£
VN^T^j^^S6è^';b^èÉttBs,: aècmrd-ing-il)
iffine >%hdlfoppdï®mity(.0 :filfóll> fifh,
ivï&h; • •In^htfb.'ïliië* w^tei“,^^ run .In upon the .flats i
mèy dopMÖt taxe tReïti^With ‘fibeif • Bill,'“; feuë Vvitlii2 tilièdr
whieh are of a'corifidërabledeögth i and they do it in this manner1;
they fly ffevera-hfathotti hi^1,' and draw their1 wings together,
and then driop down fuddenly upon the fifh like ‘ a ftone ;
then they Jgrafp- their prey with their wings, and carry them .
away prifoners. /' 2Vi
The SavOnen, is a pretty large SeaLBird, in body and neck savorren.
not unlike the Grbwfe^ bnt' befqnging to the Goofe or Duck
kind ; for they ,am’ whole, footed. We have no very exaÖt
acconnt' of thterfi; for they are notr feen longer in- thefe feas than
the month o f January and beginning o f February; they then,
: PaS t I. - 7 B b like