BUSTARD. STARE. WATER OUZEL. 63 



The cock of the Black Game has been known in Sweden to cover ^14, 



the common domeflic Hen, which did produce a barren fpurious breed. 



The Great Bustard is very common in Scania^ or Schonen-, but 321, 



ProfelTor Retzius informs me, he never faw nor heard of it in that 

 province. 



The Stare winters in Denmark, but fometimes never quits Scania,-—' ot j^ 



yir.Oedman. ■ 



The Water Ouzel is ufed by the Ruffians as a remedy againft the 332, 



dropfy. The wholebird, unfeathered, is reduced to afhes in a pot ; it 

 is taken in one dofe, and a£ls as an abforbent. — Mr. Oedman faw ic 

 fucceed beyond all expeftation in an ajcites : his father, a gentlemaa 

 eighty years of age, almoft fuiFocated with a quincy, and with his fto- 

 mach greatly fwelled, was reftored to health in four days by this fimple 

 remedy only, and has furvived, in good health, feven years fince tha 

 trial. 



The fong of the Redwing differs from that of the mufical ThrusHj., 342, 



in moft effential notes. — Mr. Oedman, 



Mr. Argillander obferves, in the y^,^. Stockholm,. 1786, that the 343, 



Golden Oriole returns to Savolax, in Finland, in the end of May, and 

 retires in September t that it is much more frequent in the north of that 

 province than the fouth, living in the birch woods along the coafts. 

 Two males attend one female : is it therefore Mandrous ? During fum- 

 mer, they keep by threes or fours together: towards autumn the flocks 

 increafe in numbers : foretel ftorms by an alteration in their whiftle. 

 They fly like Thrufhes : are timid birds, yet very irafcible, and will 

 bite very hard: are fo tenacious of life, that one which was fhot 

 through by two great fhots, lived two days. The flefh is as good as 

 that of the Thrufh. — Mr. Oedman, 



'I Dodor; 



