66 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



cliffs, whither thofe hold and venturefome bird-catchers purfue 



Mumb?r! ns tnem ? and nnc * 5o, 80, or i oo pair,, fitting interchangeably 



upon one anothers eggs. Thefe referable hens eggs, and if they 



do not grow cold, at the expiration of 14 days the young are 



hatched, and in 14. days more they are fit to go to the fea with 



the old ones. Their number is fo great, that L. Debes, in his 



Defcription of Faroe, p. 133, fays they hide the fun like a cloud, 



when they fly out from the rocks, and the noife of their wings 



makes a roaring in the air like a florin. It is faid in the fame 



place, that they have annually but one young one ; but my 



obfervers inform me that they find two eggs in the neft, and 



that is little enough, in regard to the great number that is 



annually catched and (hot '; fo that our Creator's oeconomy is alfo 



here aflonifhing. The A Ik is counted the greateft herring- 



fifher, and they will dive, according to our Strandfiddere's 



atte Rations, 20 fathoms deep under the water: they have fome- 



times the misfortune to mi (lake, and bite hold of a fifh-hook, and 



fo are drawn up from that depth as fifh. 



I?Duck!? nds And we nave nere > k-#le the well-known common tame 



ones, various forts of Wild Ducks, and thefe again are divided 



in certain fpecies ; fome keep in frefh water, and don't care 



to go to the fea, excepting in necefnty. Some have fharp- 



pointed bills, which differ again in colour, being black and 



brown ; of which the laft are fomewhat fmaller, and are often 



tufted. Both forts lay many eggSj more than any other Birds, 



namely, 20 or 2 5 ; and when the young ones are hatched, then 



the Drake flies away; and if, by any accident, they become 



motherlefs too, it has been obferved, that others of the fame 



kind have taken care of the poor forlorn young ones, as if they 



were their own ; a good leiTon for us human creatures. 



One of the broad- bill'd Wild Ducks is called Huiin or 

 Quiin-iEnder, becaufe it whines or fqueaks in the air, when it 

 takes flight. The Drake is black and white, with a tuft and a 

 white ring about his eyes upon the black ; for which reafon they 

 are alfo called Ringoyer, and fhe is brown or greyifh ; thefe live 

 moflly upon fnails, mufcles, and the like; thefe are not feen 

 longer than the Spring. Some, are called Mort-TEnder or Fisk- 

 JEnder, becaufe they live by ducking for fmall fifh. Their 

 fhape is like the former, excepting that the Drake is more 

 flreaked on the back part of his neck ; and there is a feather 

 Handing out about a finger's length: they lay 12 or 18 eggs: 

 There are alfo fome called Kraek-iEnder, becaufe they feek for a 

 fort of berries called Krsekke-baer ; or, according to the opinion 



of 



