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pcil to the corn, that the farmer is obliged 

 to ict boys to guard it from their attacks. 

 Wild geefe are fcarce Icnown even to alight 

 in iht Orknies. Tame gecfe and ducks very- 

 fare in the i (lands-. 



^7 Bernaclc. -^r. ZooL II. 451. 



t 

 2:08 Brent. Br. ZooL 11. 4^2. 



I 



S not known to breed in Orkney. 



* t ^ 



^^ Elder, j5^_ 2ooL l\.4,^a,. Tour Scot. tab. I. 



Er. Lacha lochlannach. Duntcr goofe in the Orknies, 



13REEDS in Collonfa^ Barra^ in the Flan- 

 ^^ nan^ and other ifles -, alfo in Inch-colm 

 in the Firth of Forth. The down negle(5led 

 thro' ignorance of the value : the ncft might 

 be robbed twice of the eggs and down, and 

 the bird will repair it's lols each time; but 

 they muft be fpared the third. We procure 

 the down from Iceland and Norway^ and pay 

 a confiderable price to foreigners for it. 



iro Velvet. ^r. Tool. II. 456. iv. tab. 85. 



211 Scoter. Br. ZooL 11. 457, 



212 Tuftied, 



