THE FAROES AND ICELAND 277 



2. Mohr (N.). " Forsog til en Islandsk Naturhistorie." 

 (1786.) p. 34. 



TRANSLATION BY PROFESSOR NEWTON. 



" Hafsula. In the north of the country it is 



sometimes seen to fly into the fjords. The inhabitants 

 thereupon expect hard weather, but they do not stay there 

 long, for so soon as the Eagle is aware of it, it pursues 

 them so long that they either become its prey or escape 

 out to sea again. The young are grey the first year, and 

 are said to have a very good flavour, on which account 

 this bird is highly valued in Scotland and is eaten as a 

 great delicacy by the higher classes there. It is called Jan 

 van Gent by seamen. More about this bird can be read in 

 E. Olafsen's ' Travels ' (pages 223 and 556), as well as in 

 Strom, Briinnich, and others." 



Mohr is the only author who speaks of Gannets being 

 attacked by Eagles, except Macgillivray, and he only gives 

 one somewhat inconclusive instance.* 



3. Faber (Friedrick). " Prodromus der Islandischen 

 Ornithologie." (1822.) pp. 84-87. 



TRANSLATION. 



"(l.)S. alba (Meyer) Isl : Sula, Hafsula. A non- 

 migratory bird more frequent in the South than in the 



* See " Britisli Birds," V., p. 14. 



