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^ Dom-Herre, or Dom-Pap, the Coccothraus, perhaps fo called Dom-Herre, 

 in popifh times for theirj melodious voice, refembling an organ 

 though not loud enough to fill the choir of a cathedral, where 

 the canons fing their Horae. Some call them Coccothrauftes fan- 

 guinea. Of the fame family there are many forts in other places, 

 which I do not know any thing of here. Its body is beautifully 

 variegated, red, black, and white on the wings ; and grey on the 

 back ; the hen is only of a blue-grey : the fcarceft are thofe that 

 are green, with red tufts of feathers on the head. 



The Droffel Turdus, the Thrufh, which is called here Troft, Droiia, or 

 and by a common name, which comprehends many fpecies, Krams, Krametsfug1, 

 or Krarnetsfugl ; the difference in the Norway DrofTelaes, from 

 the Daniih, confifts, as far as I can find, only in this, that fome 

 are greyifh, with white feathers under the breaft, fome of a dark 

 brown, and fome quite black. Thefe are called Soelforter. 

 Some are dark grey, with a white ring round the neck. Thefe 

 are called Ringe Troll:, the Ring Owzel. Jac. Klein, preferable 

 to other writers, has given himfelf a particular deal of trouble to 

 find out the characleriftick marks of each kind of Bird in his 

 generation; and reckons, L. C. p, 65, & feq. not lefs than thirty- 

 fix diverfe forts of Thrufhes 5 yet I am of opinion that one may 

 in this, as in other things, multiply fpecies without occafion, 

 and thereby confufe one's ideas, inftead of clearing up or eftablifh- 

 ing them ; for between fome of thefe the difference is fo fmall, 

 that I look upon it to be rather accidental than fpecifick. In the 

 Autumn here are a great many Kramsfugi, particularly when ' 

 there is a good feafon of berries, which, with other produces of 

 forefts, are known to be their food. 



The Due, or Pigeons, tame, and feveral others, are frequent Due. 

 here, but Turtle-doves are not found with us. We have Wood 

 Pigeons, and particularly about the rocks, in confiderable num- 

 bers. Willughby fays, Ornitholog. Lib. ii. p. 136, that they 

 are fomething larger than common Pigeons, which they otherwife 

 are very like : in this country it is the contrary, for they are 

 rather lefs. On the iflands at the fea-fide in Ryefylke there are 

 found a fort of wild Pigeons, which are like the tame, excepting 

 that they are all of one colour, with blue fhining feathers on the 

 neck. They build their neft in the cracks of rocks, and are not 

 fo fhy as the Wood Pigeons. 



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