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232 GENERAL REMARKS
are valuable, being of a peculiar foftnefs, and much efteemed on
account of their lightnefs and warmth. This bird is eafily taken,
and will not readily quit its neft on the approach of a man.
The fea-coafts abound with pelicans, cormorants, and other
birds, which breed moft plentifully in holes of rocks fearcely ac-
ceffible: the Laplanders, however, contrive to take the eggs of
thefe fowls in confiderable quantities, and oftentimes the birds
themfelves by means of baited hooks faftened to ropes.
I fhall conclude this fe@ion by giving a lift of the quadrupeds
and birds peculiarly belonging to Lapland and Finland, according
to the fyftem of Linnzus.
QUADRUPEDS.
Canis Lagopus ; the white fox, likewife the black, and the one
marked with a crofs upon the back: thefe are generally
confidered as varieties, though fome naturalifts feem in-
clined to diftinguith them as fpecies.
Viverra Lutreola, or Muftela Lutreola, (by the Finlanders called T7-
churi) refembles the marten.
Muftela Gulo, or Urfus Gulo, the glutton.
Mufiela Nivalis, the white weclel.
Ur/us Aréctos, the bear.
Caffor Fiber, the beaver.
Mus Lemnus, the Lapland marmot ; in fome years very abundant.
Sciurus, the {quirrel.
Cervus Tarandus, the rein-deer.
Brrps.
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