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94 NATURAL HISTORY of NOR TV A T> 



They are fhot, or catch' d in nets, or under a heavy board fet up 

 for that purpofe : they are brought to this town in the Winter 

 by thousands, and are put up half roafted in firkins, and lent 

 away to other countries : their flefh, next to the Growfe and 

 Francolin, is the beft of any Wild-fowl we have, efpecially when 

 they are fhot ; for when they are fmothered, the blood re- 

 mains in them, and they neither look nor eat well. In the Sum- 

 mer they live upon berries, tops of trees,, and other greens ; but 

 in the Winter they do as has been faid of the Growfe. "They 

 feek covering and warmth by burying themfelves in the deepeft 

 fhow, where they fit in great heaps together, taking a magazine 

 of food with them in their crops, by fluffing them as full as they 

 can with elm and birch-tops, fo that their breafts ftand out, and 

 makes them look as big again. With this (lore they fupport 

 themfelves till the following Spring. This particular I have from 

 Ol. Magn L. xix. c 33. It was known alfo to Derham, and is 

 quoted in his Phyfico Theologic. Lib. iv. c. 1 3 . as an inftance of the 

 God's provi- Almighty and Wife Creator's care, for thofe things that otherwhe 

 would perifh. The Partridge is a national and peculiar Norvegian 

 Bird, and belongs to them perhaps rather than any other country. I 

 muft obferve.that they are frequent., tho' not in fuch abundance in 

 Pruffian Courland and Switzerland % . Mr. Jac. Klein, whom I 

 have often quoted, Ipeaks of them, in his Hiftoria Avium, p. 

 173, thus: Lagopus, Fiaelripor, Snieripor, Tetrao re£ticibus 

 altibus intermediis nigris, apice albis, Linn. F. Suec. Schnee-Hen, 

 HafTel-Hen, with Hare's feet, paulo majores funt attagenibus 

 noftris, plantis pedum quoque villofis, prout pedes leporum. 

 Ejufmodi ut in Curlandia, nee non in Pruilia, haud procul a civi- 

 tate Tillit, immo in Alpibus Helveticis aliifque. Nonnullas die 

 20 Jan. 1747, exPruffia acceptas habui, quarum alteram totam 

 albam, prseter roftrum, inferam caudam & iex fcaphos remigum, de- 

 lineari curabam. Ungues habent latos concavos, &c. Utrum in Pruffia 

 verno & autumnali temporibus fimiliter colores mutent Lagopi 

 proprie didi, pro certo affirmare non aufim. They are alfo found 

 on the Pyrenean mountains, and in the Summer fly up the hills 

 in queft of the ice and ihow, which they love. This is at- 

 tefted by Gafparie Schotti, in his Phyfica Curiofa, Lib. ix. cap; 

 48, p. 1009, Reperiuntur Lagopodes in Alpibus & Pyrenseis 

 montibus 6C in"fummis jugis. In frigore, nive & glacie delec- 

 tantur, ut ubi locis inferioribus liquantur nives, altiora & fbli 

 averfa petant loca, in quibus nix perennat. Latent homine con- 



* Dr. Shaw defcribes the African Bird which he calls Kitaviah, fomething like Ry- 

 pen, though of a quite different colour. See his Voyage du Levant, Tom. i. p. 327. 



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