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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 429
other hand, if the fea is-tranquil, it is thought to be fign of a calm and ftillnefs of the
air, Beyond the bay of Drontheim, towards the fonth, this bird is not feen.
In this part of the northern ocean a certain bird, likewife, is feen, called in Norwegian
Hav-Orre, the marine heath-cock. ‘That which is male equals in fize the bird Aeder,
juit defcribed ; on the head it is a greyifh colour, green about the eyes, bluifh on the
beak, diftinguifhed by red, yellow, and black ; on the neck white ; the feet yellow, but
black almoftin the parts ; but the female is ufually of a brownith colour.
A certain kind of bird, of the fize of a duck, of a dark colour, is found alfo in Fin-
mark. They are to be met with in flocks, and are not much afraid of the prefence of
men who approach them. ‘The Ruffians are faid to bring up at home birds of this kind
tame.
The birds the Norwegians call Hav- elder, are found no lefs in this tract of country
than elfewhere, near the Norwegian fhore. ‘The male of thefe is ufually of a red neck,
mingled with white, rather long feathers, of a white colour, coming out from the tail.
Many of them are feen together, with 4 conftant vociferation, rivalling an articulate
voice, redoubling the found of Kiopangla ; hence they are called by the Laplanders Ang-
galagges, and by the inhabitants of the fouth of Norway, by way of joke, Angle Magere,
that is, hook-{miths, from the vernacular force of the word fignifying fome fuch thing.
They are faid to aflemble near lakes, on the mountains, for the purpofe of bringing
forth their young, and to hatch their young. The flefh of this fort of bird is neither
very favoury, nor altogether without relifh.
The birds which in Norwegian are called Al/fer, here too are to be feen up and down
on the Norwegian coaft ; as alfo the K/ub Alifer, which bring forth their young in the’
clefts of rocks.
~ This region abounds with great numbers of birds, which the Norwegians call Lunder,
and which too are to be met with through Norway. This bird is fomewhat lefs than a
duck, has a hooked beak, not much varying from an eagle’s, except where it is marked
with various fpecks, different from an eagle’s, which 1s all of one colour. Thefe birds
lay their eggs in high and inacceflible rocks, whence they are taken out with long poles.
In certain tracts of Norland dogs are reared and inftruéted to get into the rocks and
bring out the birds themfelves. The feathers and down of thefe birds, above all which
Norway produces, are moft excellent, and ufetul in the ftuffing of beds and pillows.
In fome traéts of this country, fuch as the ifland Aeffer Den Sylteviigen, and Sverholts
Klub, in the eaftern Finmark, in the weftern, and elfewhere, is a bird, known here and
there in different places through Norway, in the common language called Tie/?e, but in
the Lapland Zhiaelkes, a little below the fize of a duck, of a chicken voice, black eyes,
with a white fpeck on each wing, the feet being elegantly red. Its eggs are {treaked,
contain a very full yolk, and red in comparifon of that which is found in the eggs of
hens; it lays among heaps of ftones, or in the clefts of rocks; its neft is negligently
prepared on the bare ground, but yet fufficiently adapted for the hatching and nou-
rifhing its young. The young in the firft year are grey, when, in Lapland, they are
called Borgek. ‘This bird, fwimming on the water, on the difcharge of the gun, plunges
itfelf in the fea, fwifter than thought, the inftant. Finmark produces cormorants in
numbers almoft incalculable. Of this kind of bird are various kinds, among which are
numbered cormorants of a grey colour, called in Norwegian Si/d Maager, that is, cor-
morants that feed on herrings, the largeft of their kind: the greater cormorants, with
black wings, yellow feet and beak, in Norwegian called Sortbag, in Lapiand Gaire ; and
the lefler cormorant, of the fame colour, in the Lapland called Sobmer ; a larger kind,
white, with grey eyes, yellow beak and feet, in Norwegian Blaa Maager, in Lapland
called
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