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230 GENERAL REMARKS
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frequenting the mountains, the other keeping to the plain. In
fummer they are of the colour they are feen elfewhere, but in
winter they have white feathers; and when they lic half covered
with fnow, they are {carcely difcernible from it. Partridges arc
taken by the Laplanders in great numbers after the following
manner : a low hedge is made with twigs of the birch-tree, open-
ings being left at fmall diftances juft large enough for the birds to
creep through. In thefe openings fprings are placed of cows’ hair,
with a running noofe; and the partridges, coming to feed on the
buds of the birchen boughs, and endeavouring to pafs thefe holes,
are taken in the fnare.
Pigeons and doves (called by the natives of Norway ringel duc}
are found in many parts of Finmark, and on the borders of Ruffia,
but they are by no means a common bird. There is a kind of
plover (charadrius) which, in the Danith language, 1s called brok-
Jugl, much admired for the glofly black of its feathers, and the
delicacy of its flefh. This bird is very common in Denmark, and
frequently found in Finmark; it appears early in the fpring, and
is not feen after the fummer is paft, during which time it makes
its neft, and breeds its young, which have at firft brown {potted
feathers that are afterwards replaced by black. Of this bird there
are found fome varieties, which have different names.
Befides thefe, there are feveral forts of thrufhes, the fleth of
which is thought to be delicate. There are likewife woodcocks,
{nipes, fnow birds, linnets, goldfinches, fifkins, and a variety of
other fmall birds. The cuckoo is found here, but the ftarling,
the
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