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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 229
*« fet in 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 goodnefs to procure mea fpecimen of this bird, which
“was hitherto quite unknown. At firft fight it feems to refem-
** ble 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 feems to be a variety
of the buftard or dotterel. To the male the Norwegians give
the name of fodder, which they pronounce as if written dotter ;
the female they call roey. The 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 fleth of this fowl is
equally efteemed with that of the common buftard.
Partridges are very numerous; they are of two forts, the one
* Dr. Eklund is a diftinguifhed ornithologift, and particularly converfant with
the Swedifh birds,
frequenting
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