NATURAL HISTORY of NO RW A T. S 3 



that they are companions of the Owks and others, but are Ampler, 

 and eafier catch'd. The hen lays but one egg at a time, fhe 

 hatches it in four weeks, and in all that time does not ftir from 

 it : fhe is fed by the cock till the young one is three weeks old, 

 and then the mother takes it with her to the ocean on her back. 

 Of thefe kind are frequently found feveral hundreds in a place, 

 lying fo clofe together, that the rock is covered with them. When 

 the mother feeds her young, then they fit up backwards, and 

 fhe ftretches^ her neck under her wing, to reach the young one's 

 bill. If it is the firft time that the fowler comes to the place, . 

 fo that the Birds do not know his intentions by experience, then 

 they'll fit and fuffer themfelves to be killed 5 but if they fly 

 , away, and come again, then each young one knows how to find 

 its mother's wing, as each bee does its cell, though there is no 

 difference in their make. 



The Lax-Tite, is a Water-bird, in appearance like a Skade, Lax . Tite . 

 b\it with long red legs, and a red bill. This has its name from 

 this lingular circumftance, that it, particularly in the Spring, 

 when the Salmon comes up the rivers, follows that fifh, and feems 

 pleafed in its company, hovering on the water where it pafies : it 

 is a kind of a fignal to the fimermen. 



The Lerke, the Lark: of this bird we have here two forts, Lerke. 

 one called the Singing Lark, which we find only in Summer : 

 this is of a brown colour, and builds in heath, and among fmali 

 bullies, but is hard to be found. The other is the Korn Lerke : 

 this is fomething larger, and it is feen ofteneft in the Winter ; yet 

 both forts are feen fometimes in large flat countries,, and alfo on 

 fbme of the iflands. 



The^Lom, Liom, Lum ; the Northern Diver, which Ol. Wor- L om. 

 mius, inMufeo, p. 304, calls Colymbum Ardricum, is a Water- 

 bird, not quite fo large as the before defcribed Immer, or Ember, 

 but otherwife like it; but yet morelike the Razor-bill (which 

 has been^ before defcribed) excepting that the neck is thicker, and 

 the bill is fharper. Its bignefs maybe known from this, that they 

 fometimes weigh two pounds. They are all over of a moufe-grey, 

 and fomewhat lighter under the breaft : tho' their wings are but 

 fmall, yet they fly pretty well ; but they walk extremely flow, 

 and with difficulty » becaufe their legs ftand fo far backwards, 

 under their tail, as they do on the Immeren and Razor-bill ; 



* From this Bird's bad gait Schefferus derives his name, in his Lappon, c. 30, where 

 Lomnie, or Lumme, he fays, is the fame as Lame, Halting, or Limping, claudicare ; 

 butthat I will not determine. In the fame place he talks of Wormii Mergis, or 

 Halv-^nder, whofe pointed bill alone diftinguifhes it and many others from the 

 common clafle. 



therefore 



