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The cat lores to catjish, hut does not love to tvet her feet. I 

 have seen him upon the ice feed on the dung of a sea-horse, 

 ujion whose body he will rest when he is alive, as crows 

 will do in our countries. He flieth commonly alone by him- 

 self, but where there is a prey they flock in great numbers. 



I did delineate them in the Shallow Corner (called Shallow 

 Point), in Sj)itzber(/c)i, on the 10th of Jult/ ; when we shot 

 him he was not wild at all, so that I could have knock'd him 

 down with the gun. 



2. Of the Pigeon. ' 



The pigeofi, or rather the piffeon-dtoer, is also one of the 

 beautifullest birds of Sj)?tzbergen ; it is of the bigness of a 

 duck ; the bill is somewhat long, thin, and sharp-pointed ; 

 at the point the upper bill is somewhat crooked, about two 

 inches long, and hollow within. It hath but three red toes 

 on its feet, with crooked claws ; it hath short redish legs, 

 and a short tail. Some of these birds are black all their 

 body over, but others, and so was that which I delineated, 

 about their wings ; and in the middle they are white pyed 

 with black, but underneath the wings they are quite white ; 

 others are in the middle of their wings quite white : their 

 bill is red within ; the tongue M also red and hollow ; they 

 cry like young pigeons, whence they have their name, for 

 they are in nothing else like them. In their crops I found 

 shrimps or prawns, and small sandstones. 



They do not flie high over the sea, and their flight is very 

 like the partridges : they do not flie many together as the 

 lumbs, but usually by pares, and sometimes one alone by its 

 self. 



They can keep a great while under water, wherefore they 

 may be called diving pigeons. 



^ The black guillemot ( ?7nrt Grylle) ; called "Tystie" in Shetland. 

 (Sec Appendix.) 



