E U R. O P E A N K I N G E I S H E R., 



Al European KiNOFisHERj ffr. Ziol. i. N° 8S; — Latham, i. (^z&i, 

 Le Martin-Pecheur, Buffon, vii. 164. — PI, Enl. 77. 

 Alcedo Ifpida, i«3. iScy?. 179. — Lev. Mu5. 



XT' With the crowaj and coverts, of the wings, of a deep greeirj, 

 fpotted with cerulean : fcapulars, and back bright casrulean ; . 

 tail rich deep blue : breaft and belly orange red. 

 FSt^esi Said by Da Pratz ta be io-andi in North America ; but, as I never 



faw it in any colleftion, doubt the faft. Inhabits the temperate parts 

 o^ Ruffia and Sibiria, and is frequent about the Jenefei, but not farther, 

 eaft. It does not extend to Sweden^ :sindi it even feems a rarity in D^h^ 

 mark *. . 



The 'Tartars and OJliaks Vi(t the feathers of this bird as a love- 

 charm. They fling them on water, and preferve thofe which fwim 5 

 believing, . that the woman, , whom they touch with one of thefe 

 feathers, will immediately become enamoured with them. The Oftiaks 

 preferve the bill, feet, and fkin, in a purfe, and imaginethem to be: 

 pfefervatives againfl; all forts of misfortunes f. 



The moft fingylar northern philtre, is a fort of mufhroom, worn . 

 % the youth of Lapland in a purfe, ante pubem pendulo. Linn^us's ■ 

 apoftrophe is very diverting. 



'• O ridicula Venu^, tibi, qnsln exteris regionibus uteris ca^ea et choce- . 

 "■ lata, conditis et faccharatis, vinis et bellariis, ggmmis et margaritis, auro 

 "■ et argento, ferico et cofmetico, faltationibus et conventiculis, snufica et i 

 ^'••coiBcediis, tibi fufficit hie folus exfuccus fungus." Flora Lappqn, 368. 



"* MuUer, Prod. Zeol. Dun. 13. f Gmelin, voy. ji. 112. 



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