MIGRATION OF BRITISH BIRDS. 5 t 9 



whom we dare quote with confi- 

 dent e : that the out-line of North 

 Britijh zoology, left by Sir Robert 

 Sibbald near ninety-nine years ao-o, 

 hath not been yet filled up ; and 

 that in this little effay we are obliged 

 to pafs over a confiderablepart of this 

 idand (from whence doubtlefs many 

 of our birds take their departure) 

 and to trace them from foreign 

 writers and from foreign mores. 



Goofanders. This whole genus is mentioned 



among the birds that fill the Lap- 

 land\zk.t% during fummer : for they 

 quit our fhores in fpring. 



Bucks. Of the numerous fpecies that form 



this genus, we know of no more 

 than five that breed here. The tarns 

 Swan and tameGoofe, the Shield Duck* 

 the Eider Buck, and a very fmall 

 portion of the wild Bucks. 



The reft contribute to form that 

 amazing multitude of water fowl, 

 that annually repair from mofr parts 

 of Europe to the woods and lakes of 

 Lapland, and other arftic regions *, 



* Barents: found the Bernacles with their nefts in great numbers 

 in Nova Xembla. Colled. <voy. Dutch Eajl-lndia Company, 8vo. 

 1703. p, 19. Clujius in his Exot. 368. alfo obferves, that the 

 Dutch discovered them on the rocks of that country and in Waygate 

 Straits. They, as well as the other fpecies of <wild Gecfe, go \ ery 



far 



