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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 425
with a red one, or variegated with a dark neck; they equal in fize the field ouzel or
black bird, but with larger feet, they have a fharp beak of a pale yellow colour.
That which is male is red from the beak on to the crown without feathers; it is
adorned with two crefts or combs, which form as many flaps, rifing on each fide of the
flefh without feathers. The male when going to couple for young feats herfelf on
fome rifing hillock by land, and gaily expanding all his plumes, wonderfully difplays
them, and exhibits fuch geftures as we before obferved in the bird called in Latin
Urogallus.
The ouzel or field black-bird from its elegant colour, and delicious flavour, is much
in efteem, known to the neighbourhood of Denmark, and is to be met with in Fins
mark. ‘Thefe birds come in fpring and go in fummer. When the time of their flight
is approaching, they fly together and coalefce in a variety of greater flocks. They
inhabit marfhy grounds, where on the higher hillocks, which are found in the marth,
they build their nefts, and lay their variegated eggs under the open air, whence, in fome
parts of Norway, they are called Heifoner, as it Hedefoner, that is, birds inhabiting
marfhy grounds. ‘This fame bird elfewhere in Norway is called Agerloe, that is hut-
bandman, but in Lapland Bizhiutzh.
To the clafs of ouzels or field black-bird, is referred a bird called in Norway Spovr ; in
Lapland Gu/gajtak. ‘There are two kinds of this bird which is not uncommon any more
in Finmark than elfewhere through Norway, differing from eachother, but in the
fize of the body alone, fome furpafling others in magnitude; butall almoft agree in their
afh colour, inclining fomewhat to a dark one, im their feet rather long, long beak,
crooked and flender. They are frequently feen on large ftones by the fea fhore. They
lay their eggsin marfhy grounds, and the flefh is of a moft delicious flavour.
In Finmark as elfewhere through Norway, a certain bird is to be met with, called in
Lapland Mackka/ak, but in Norwegian, from the varying dialeét of each province,
one time is called Ry/e Giog, another time Mfacffer Giog, and alfo Myre-heft. It has
dark wings, variegated with f{pots, a beak rather long, a voice not unlike the bleating
of a he-goat ; it yields a little in the fize of the body to the field black-bird, aad lives in
marfhy grounds. As far as know this bird is found in Denmark, there known under
the name of Myrebut. .
There is a certain bird to be met with in Finmark, called in Lapland Sagan, in Nor-
wegian Kield, or Rone Kalv, in Latin Pica Marina, and frequently met with, in Fin-
mark. ‘the Pica Marina or Sea Magpye, is a little larger than the black-bird of
the fields, of a faffron beak, the belly and feet fomewhat yellow, the breaft and part of
the wings white, the reft of a very black colour. It is feen in common on the fhore,
where it lays its eggs, and brings forth its young in a neft which is negligently made
among the fea-weeds or bare fea ftones. It is no ungrateful object to the curious eye,
to obferve this bird on the fea-fhore, clofely treading on the water receding along
the fand, and yielding to it on its return: but its ill-timed and extremely unpleafant
vociferation which frightens away the other birds is not fo agreeable to the hunters.
That {pecies too is reckoned among the aquatic birds of Finmark, which the Lap-
landers, in their language, call Buvadak, but in Norwegian, the inhabitants of the
diftriét of Finmark call Strog- Kjeld, that is the chattering magpye. This does not differ
from that I have defecribed, but in the ftature which is a little lefs, and colour which all
over the body is grey. But this bird is known and hated for its clamour and noife,
with which it fills the whole neighbourhood, and from this it has its name. In other
parts of Norway, it is called Strand Kield, from the fhore where it lives.
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