86 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



gratia avem emerfuram efTe, praeviae in aqua ebullitiones mon- 

 ftrant ; atque ita capiti extra aquam exferto laqueum induunt. 

 Quaeres, quern in ufum earn noflri homines aucupentur ? Camera 

 quidem minus in delieiis habent ; exuvias autem, pedfcori capiti- 

 que contra injurias hyemismuniendis, appetunt 8c conquiront. In- 

 fignem enim di&is corporis humani partibus, ob plumarum deli- 

 catam mollitiem ac denfitatem, operam prseflant. Capiti quidem 

 tale ex iis faciunt tegmen, quali vulgus aulicorum plurimom 

 utimtur, vulgus a Kabbutz fua lingua vocat. Pe&ori fcmentum 

 longe faluberrimum pr^bet, adeo ut vel cygno, cujus apud dk. 

 tiores exuvise multo in pretio, nihil cedat, 

 Lund. The Lund, or Lund-Talle, the Anas Artfcica, or Pope, is a 



middle-fiz'd Sea-bird, fomc-thing larger than a Pidgeon, black and 

 white, and on account of his beak, is called by fome the Norwe- 

 gian Parrot; for it is pretty large, and hooked like a Parrot's, 

 tho' thinner and broader, and ftriped prettily with yellow, red, 

 and black. This bill is fo fharp, that when he bites any of the 

 bird-catchers he takes off a large piece of 'fie ill : his claws are 

 alfo very fharp, with which, and his beak, he defends himfelf 

 againfl the Raven, his enemy, whom he holds by the throat, 

 and will carry him out to fea, and drown him, before he loofes 

 his hold. This Bird builds his neft, (in which it lies on its 

 back) not always alike, but according to the fituation of the 

 place; for if it be low, then it will make a flanting hole in 

 the ground two or three ells deep \ but if it be rocks and cliffs, 

 then the Bird looks for holes between the cracks and open- 

 ings : fometimes alfo it builds between great flones, that are 

 broke out, or loofened on the fides of thefe rocks, and where 

 it is the moft difficult to get at them. The farmers have parti- 

 cular dogs, broke on purpofe for their fervice, to go in, and pull 

 out the firfl they can lay hold of by the wings, where they are 

 together in fcores, or fometimes one or two hundred! together : 

 their way is, that when one is laid hold of, and drawn out, he 

 bites fall hold of his next neighbour, and draws him with him; 

 and all laying hold in the fame manner, that they mail all be 

 drawn out, and killed. If the hole be not very deep, or ° the 

 rock not fo fteep but that the bird-catcher can get at it, then 

 they ufe a long flick to drive them out; this has a fharp hook atr 

 the end. 



Lucas Debes writes, p. 13^7, that on Farroe they alfo catch 

 thefe Birds, when they come from fea and feek their neft, witfr 

 a net fpread on a pols, and kept open with- a crofs flick, into 

 which they carelefsly fly ; this way they catch fometimes 200 in 



a day; 



