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of the air on their bodies ; juft as the cat's fcratching the trees 

 portends a ftorm. Not to mention the many almanacks people 

 have about their bodies, to tell them when bad weather is 

 coming. The fmall Bird which has occafioned this digreflion 

 is alfo called Haren. It is black, larger than a Starling, and 

 has a very fharp beak. Whether it is known any where elfe I 

 cannot fay; but I have not met with this, nor feveral other 

 Norvegian Birds, amongft the feveral writers of Ornithology. 



SECT. VII. 



Taerne. See Sandtserne. 



Tdft. The Teift, is a Sea-bird of the eatable kind, and is very well 



tailed : it is fomething lefs than the Razor-bill, and has red legs, 

 and a red bill, which lafl is moderately long. In the Summer 

 they are black, with half their wings white ; and in the Winter 

 they change to a light grey, and that fo fuddenly, that in a few 

 Winter-nights one may immediately perceive the difference : 

 they lay two grey fpotted eggs, like a Pigeon's. The male and. 

 female fit upon them by turns, for fourteen days : they build in 

 hollows and cracks in the rocks, near the fea. Hr. Ramus fays, 

 p. 2,50, that the Teiflen's dung is of a deep red colour, and they 

 live upon a kind of fhell-flOx, which they get along the fea- 

 coafl, which pombly occafions that red colour. It is that kind 

 of fhell-fifh from which purple was firfl produced. It is pro- 

 bable that thefe purple-fnails might alfo be found here in great 

 quantities, if they were fearch'd for. See further, Cap. ii. §. 11. 

 of the infect called Roe Aat. 



Ten. See Sandtallen, or Tendeloben *. 



Tieid. The Tield, called alfo Glib, and by fome Strand Skade, tho' 



this name perhaps is given to two different forts of Birds. The 

 Tielden pretty much refembles the Loon : it has a long yellow- 

 beak butting out towards the end : the feet are half cloven and 

 half webb'd, like thofe kind of Birds that live upon fuch prey as is 

 caught both on land and in water. They come early in the 

 Spring, and hy their cries fright other Birds. This Bird is a 

 great enemy to the Raven : it flies againfl him with violence, 

 and fticks his thick and fharp bill into him; this makes him 

 fet up a melancholy noife, and take to flight; for this reafon the 

 Tielden is the farmer's favourite, and is treated as a protector and 



* The three names, Taerne, or Terne, Tedn, and Ten, belong, without doubt, to 

 one and the fame Bird ; for die eaftern and weftern dialed: makes it appear fo in other 

 things ; as when they, according to the Danifh manner of expreffing, mould fay, 

 Jern, Horn, Korn, Barn, they fay, in their way, Jedn, Hodn, Kodn, Baadn. 



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