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joining fen the Yellow-hammer (Motncilla 

 jiava) and some Swallows. 



Baron Grundell told me he often had 

 Snow Buntings (Einberiza nivalis), and 

 Ortolans (E. Hortiihnius), which last are 

 frequently sold in France for the value of a 

 ducat (nine shillings). These birds are 

 also to be met with in Scania. Here had 

 been plenty of RufFs and Reeves this year 

 {Tringa pugnai). 



He showed me the skins of blue and 

 black Foxes, and also of the variety called 

 Korssraf, Cross Fox {Canis Vtilpes (B Faun. 

 Suec), which is of a yellow colour except 

 the shoulders and hind quarters, and they 

 are of a greyish black. He told me he 

 had lately sent the king a live Jarf 

 [Miistela Gulo), and that he had once 

 had another of that species so much do- 

 mesticated, that when he would have turned 

 it into the water, at the first cutting of the 

 ice, it would not leave him, nor would it 

 feed on any kind of fish alive. 



In the garden the Governor showed me 



