724 APPENDIX. 



the Swallow tailed Shield Duck, and the different 

 lores of Goofanders which then vifit our coafts. 



RANTS. 



Corvo- The Corvorant and Shag breed on mod of our 



high rocks : the Gannet in fome of the Scotch ides, 

 and on the coaft of Kerry : the two firft continue 

 on our fhores the whole year. The Gannet difper- 

 fes itfelf all round the feas of Great-Britain, in 

 purfuit of the Herring and Pilchard, and even as 

 far as the Tagus to prey on the Sardina. 



But of the numerous fpecies of fowl here enume- 

 rated, it may be obferved how very few entruft 

 themfdves to us in the breeding feafon ; and 

 what a diftant flight they make to perform the 

 firft great dictate of nature. 



There feems to be fcarcely any but what we 

 have traced to Lapland, a country of lakes, ri- 

 vers, fwamps and alps *, covered with thick and 

 gloomy forefts, that afford fhelter during fummer 

 to thefe fowls, which in winter difperfe over the 

 greateft part of Europe. In thofe' arttic regions, 

 by reafon of the thicknefs of the woods, the ground 

 remains moift and penetrable to the Woodcocks, and 

 other (lender billed fowl : and for the web-footed 

 birds f , the waters afford larva innumerable of the 



torment- 



* Flora Lapponica Le&ori et Proleg. 

 f A difciple of Linnaeus, fpeaks thus of their food, Lap- 

 ponia, ubi viftum ex larvis et pupis culicum, altrix" paravit 



numinis 



