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Court and State Library at Munich, and which was reproduced 
in photo-lithography by Professor Brenner in 18861. In section 
F. of this chart, will be found åa representation of the two 
ermines, seizing each its lemming, which are depicted in the 
above wood-cut; but all the rest of the flock, descending from 
the clouds, belongs to the original work of 1555. 
Olaus Magnus's work which was more wide-spread and known 
than that of Ziegler, was, for an entire century and more (but 
therefore without reason), the source of many authors who, du- 
ring that period, mentioned this species in their writings, such as 
Conrad Gesner (1560)?, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1607)?, and 
others. 


In the year 1579, a treatise was published in Germany . 
under the following title: 
*Wunder Zeitung von Meusen, so im Norwegen aus der Luft 
auff die Erde vnd Heuser gefallen” Anno 1573. 
The place where the writing was published, is not men- 
tioned, neither is the name of the author; but from the wording 
it would appear as if the author were "Jacobus Kruger 
Prediger,” and in a revised edition of the same, which was 
issued the following year*, it is seen that the place was *Ham- 
burg den 10 Decembris 1579.” 
It is quoted here as follows: — 
1) Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1886, No. 15. 
%) Icones animalium Quadrvpedum Viviparorum et OQviparorum quae mn 
Historiae Animalium Conradi Gesneri Lib. I et II describuntur . . Ed. 
IT (Tiguri 1560). 
3) Jvlii Cæsaris Scaligeri Exotericarvm Exercitationvm Liber XV, de Sub- 
titiate. Francofvrti 1607. (Exercit. 192, p. 626). 
It says here: "Locvstarvm simillima pestis ea, quæ in Nortuegiam fre- 
quenter incumbit e nubibus putridis. Pluit ab vis bestiola quadrupes, Lem- 
mer, nomen habet” &c. 
Subsequently (p. 627) the following remarkable passage occurs: 
*Nempe a minort ad maius, Muse putredine potest nasci; ergo & homo 
potest” &c. 
4) "Wunderzeitung, von Meiisen, so in Norwegen aus der Lufft auff 
die Erde vnd Heuser gefallen vnd geregnet sind, Anno 1579.” 
(Vlssen 1580.) 
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