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the Swallow tailed Shield Duck, and the different 

 fores of Goofanders which then vifit our coafts. 



Corvo- The Corvorant and Shag breed on mod of our 



high rocks : the Gannet in fome of the Scotch ides, 

 and on tht eoafl: of Kerry : the two firft continue 

 on our Ihores the whole year. The Gannet difper- 

 fes itfelf all round the feas of Great-Britain, in 

 purfuit of the Herring and Pilchard, and even as 

 far as the Tagus to prey on the Sardina. 



But of the numerous fpecies of fowl here enume- 

 rated, it may be obierved how very few entruft 

 themfelves to us in the breeding feafon ; and 

 what a diftant flight they make to perform the 

 firft great dictate of nature. 



There feems to be fcarcely any but what we 

 have traced to Lapland, a country of lakes, ri- 

 vers, fwamps and alps *, covered with thick and 

 gloomy forefts, that afford fhelter during fummer 

 to theie fowls, which in winter difperfe over the 

 greateft part of Europe, In thole arftic regions, 

 by reafon of the thicknefs of the woods, the ground 

 remains moid and penetrable to the Woodcocks, and 

 other flender billed fowl : and for the web-footed 

 birds f , the waters afford larva innumerable of the 



torment- 



* Flora Lapponica Lectori et Proleg. 

 f A difciple of Linnceus, fpeaks thus of their food, Lap- 

 ponla, ubi vidtum ex iarvis et pupis culicum, altrix paravit 



numinis 



