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His feet have also but three claws, joined with a red skin 

 between them, with three short and strong nails ; the legs 

 are but short, and of a red colour ; he walks wabbling. 



About his eyes he hath a red ring, and above this ring 

 stands upright a little horn, and underneath the eyes lyeth 

 another little, longish, black horn cross over. 



His tail is short : the head is black at the top unto the 

 horn ; but his cheeks are white ; about his neck he hath a 

 black ring ; all his back and wings also, at the top or the 

 outside, are black, but underneath the belly is white. They 

 fly either singly or by pairs, and have sharp-pointed wings 

 like the lumbs. He will keep a great while under water. 

 He eats like the rest, red shrimps or prawns, small fish and 

 worms, and also the sea-spiders and star-fish, for I found 

 something in his stomach that looked like pieces thereof, but 

 they were almost digested. 



He hath more flesh upon him than the diving pigeon, and 

 is very good to eat. I never saw him among the ice. This 

 whereof I show you the draught was shot at Schmerenherg in 

 Spitzhergen, on the 20th day of June, but afterwards we got 

 several more. 



9. Of the Mountain Duck.i 



Hitherto we have described the web-footed birds that have 

 three claws that are not divided, that I saw and got about 

 Spitzbergen ; I must now describe those that have undivided 

 feet with four claws, whereof I found three sorts, mz., the 

 mountain duck, kirmeiv, and mallemucke. 



The mountain duck is a kind of our wild duck, or rather 

 wild goose ; for she is of the bigness of a middling goose 

 and is more like a goose about the bill. It is a very hand- 

 some bird, because of its delicate spotted feathers. They 

 dive under water as other ducks do. The drake hath black 

 and white spotted feathers, and the duck hath feathers of the 



' The Eider-Duck {Somateria mollissima) . 



