NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 6 5 



Akerloe, a fort of fmall Bird, which in the Spring appears on Akcrioe. 

 plowed land, and picks up the worms; they look a good deal 

 like a HeHoe, (which (hall be hereafter noticed) but they are 

 fome thing lefs. 



Aker Rixe, or Vagtel Konge, are called here by fome Ager- Aker Rkc, 

 Hone, tho' it mull not be taken for the Bird to which we give 

 that name in Denmark ; for fuch fort of Ager-Hons are not found 

 in Norway as I know of *. It is made a good deal like a Sneppe, 

 brownifh, with a pretty longifh neck and legs, but of the 

 bignefs of a Kramsfugl ; its flefh is white, and of a delicate tafte. 



When the corn is high enough for them to hide themfelves 

 in, then they'll ft ay and hatch their young ones there; with their 

 bill they make a kind of noife like fa wing or cutting fomething 

 hard, which is called to rixe, and from thence the Bird has 

 its name. 



; Allike, Kaa, Kaye, Kaage, Monedula, the Jackdaw, fomething Aiiike. 3 

 like a fmall Crow, is called alfo Comix Garrula, becaufe they can 

 be taught to fpeak a few words ; this Bird builds high, and 

 gathers in great flights together : by the name they may be 

 eafily confounded with the following, tho' they are very different 

 from it. 



A Ik; this '.is a Bird peculiar to this country, and for its feathers Aik. 

 very ufeful ; 'tis as big as a large duck, but narrower in the breaft; 

 the lega fland clofer together, and the wings are Ms. They are 

 diftinguifhed into two forts by the beak; it is on fome Wifh 

 and narrow; in others thick, fhort, and bent on the back; it is 

 black, excepting at the ends of the wings and tail, which are 

 white, as well as all underneath ; and from the eyes there goes a 

 white ftnpe all down the neckf. They can fifli and fwim 

 beyond many other, but are very weak at flying or walking 

 becaufe the legs are as if they were upon the rump; fo very fas 

 behind, that it is troublefome to move them on land ; the Bird 

 therefore totters like a drunken man : on this account is the 

 faying, He is as drunk as an Alk. The wings are of no great 

 uie, and for that reafon it is eafily taken on the neft. Thev 

 always build by the fea-fide, on the higheft and fleepeft rocks or 



neve/we^ fcfe If A^ ^ a F° d frIend ' that tiH about $W* ^ fmce ^ 

 never- were leen any Ager-hons in this country < about that time they appeared like a 



colony mo .likely from Bahus-Lehn in Sweden, and perhaps firftXm Skaane 



Thefe fixed themfelves here and in Smaalehnene, and fo on farther q L to ChriSa 



!L iKohT ?i ^i tiCUlarly aftCr th£y Were as k we - takS £ ^ protean by 

 the king s order, and had three years privileges from being deftroyed. ? * V 



TrLI ^ if d VTT^ d t rib£d by Frid ' Ma « ens > » his Spitzbergenfke 

 Toucher. P ' P ' W q * ^^ * appearS under the W« * Papagey- 



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