10* NATURAL- HISTORY of NORWAY. 



them hereabouts ; what we have are moftly in Tonsberg-Lehn 

 and Borrefyflel. 



BergUgie. The Ugle, the Owl : of this Bird we have two forts, namely, 

 the Berg, or Stone Owl, which is large, and grey fpeckled, with 

 great round red eyes. It lives in the -rocks, and makes a fright- 

 ful noife, mapping at the fame time with his bill like a Stork. 



KatUgie. The Kat Ugle, is fomething lefs than the former, and its head 



is more like a Cat's than a Bird's. This feeds on mice, and other 

 fuch vermin, great quantities of which are found in their nefts ; 

 for this reafon the prudent farmers willingly afford them an habi- 

 tation in their barns: they are however hated here, from a 

 fuperflitious notion people have, that it forebodes death in the 

 family where they happen to take up their abode. They lay two 

 eggs, and if they are chang'd for hen s eggs, the Owl will hatch 

 them, but eat the young, when they find they are not of their 

 own kind. If the Owl and the Cat happen to quarrel and fight, 

 they, do not leave off till one or the other is killed; fo that 

 their enmity is not the lefs for their being in fome degree of kin. 

 Thus we fee, according to the Norvegian proverb, Friends are 

 the greateft foes : the greateft friends may become the greateft 

 enemies. 



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