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But chiefly when they are pursued by men, or if their 

 wings be hurt by a shot, they will dive and keep a great 

 while under water ; and sometimes they get underneath the 

 ice, and there they are suffocated ; they were as nimble and 

 quick under water (if their wings or feet are not quite shot 

 off) as we could row with our boat. Their flesh is good to 

 eat when the fat is taken away from it, if afterwards it be 

 fryed in butter. The first diving pigeon I got on the 23rd 

 of May on the ice, and afterwards at Sjntzhergen, where they 

 are seen more frequently. 



3. Of the Lumb.i 



This bird is likest in his bill unto the diving pigeon, only 

 it is somewhat stronger and crookeder. 



He hath black feet with three black toes, and as many 

 black nails ; his legs are black also and short. 



He is quite black at the top, but underneath his belly, 

 even to the neck, he is snow white ; his tail is short. His 

 cry is very unpleasant, most like that of a raven, and they 

 cry more than all the other birds, except the rotger-divers ; 

 he is bigger than the diving pigeon, as big as a middling 

 duck. In their crops I find small fish and prawns, and also 

 some sandstones : and one t»f them flying over our shij), 

 dropp'd a large red prawn into the ship. I also delineated 

 it in the mentioned place. They say likewise that small 

 fresh river fish are their prey ; but this I cannot relate for 

 certain. 



AVhen they have young ones, they commonly sit by the 

 old ones, one or two on the Avater, who teach them to dive 

 and swim. After the old ones have brought their young in 

 their bill from the rocks to the water, the preying bird called 

 hur germeister sometimes catches the young ones when the 



^ The common guillemot ( Uria Troih), and also the Uria Bntnnichii 

 may be included under this head. 



