NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



The Nodde-Skriger is of the fize of a Pigeon; in colour it isN<*m 

 blue and white : it haunts the oak and hazel trees. skriger. 



Orn, the Eagle, Aquila, a well-known, large, ftrono- and Om. 

 majeftic Bird, is held amongft Birds as the lion amon^ft the 

 beafts, for king. J. Klein reckons, p.- 41, eight forts of Eagles, 

 of which two only are known here, namely, the Rock-Eao-le 

 and the Fifh-Eagle 5 the firft is alfo called here the Slag-Orn : it 

 is fomething lefs than the other, and {potted with grey ; it haunts 

 the higheft places in the country, and kills hares, meep, lambs 

 and the like animals, as well as Birds 5 and if one may believe 

 the farmers accounts, they add, that he will attack a deer fbme- 

 times : in this enterprize he makes ufe of this ftratagem • he 

 foaks his wings in water, and then covers them with land and 

 gravel, with which he flies againft the deer's face, and blinds 

 him for a time ; the pain of this fets him running about like a 

 diftra&ed creature, and frequently he tumbles down a rock, or 

 {bme fteep place, and breaks his neck ; thus he becomes a prey 

 to the Eagle. Many have allured me, that the lame device is 

 pra&ifed by this Bird on horfes, particularly the old and worn 

 out j and I have both heard, and read in foreign authors, many 

 accounts of their carrying away children of two or three years 

 old, but never believed it, till a very worthy man, who was 

 well acquainted with the fadl, allured me of the folio win o- inci- 

 dent. In the year 1737, in the parifri of Norderhougs on Rin- 

 geringe, a boy of about two years old had got out into the 

 fields to look for his parents, who were at work pretty near the 

 houfe, but not near enough to {ave this child from an Eagle 

 who ftuck his talons into him, and flew away with him, which 

 the poor parents beheld with inexpreffible grief and ano-uifh. 

 Hr. Anderfon, in his Defcription of Iceland, $ xxxviii. p. m. 

 38. fays, that children of four or five years old have been taken 

 away by the Eagles ; which the learned anonymous Icelander, 

 who has illuftrated the Danifh tranllation with his comment 

 doubts, p. 2,82, in regard to the age. Ray * gives an account 

 of a child of a year old, in the Orkney illands, that was carried 

 away four miles by an Eagle to his neft, where the mother found 

 it unhurt, and took it away : many more fuch inftances may be 

 met with in authors, as a warning to carelels parents. 



* Quae infantulum unius anni pannis involutum arripuit (quern mater telTelas uffi-. 

 biles pro igne allatura, momento temporis depofuerat in loco Hautonhead dicto) eum- 

 que deportaffe per 4 millia paffuum ad Hoyam. Qua re ex matris ejulatu cognica, 

 quatuor viri iliac in navicula profecti Mint, & fcientes ubi nidus effet, infantulum illae- 

 fum & intaclum deprehenderunt. Ray. Prodom. Hilt. Nat. Scot, 



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