NATURAL HISTORY of 71 to R W A Y. 69 



Dom-Herre, or Dom-Pap, the Coccothraus, perhaps fo called DomH em , 

 in popilh times for theirj melodious voice, refembling an organ, 

 though not loud enough to fill the choir of a cathedral, where 

 the canons fing their Hora. Some call them Coccothrauftes fan- 

 guinea. Of the fame family there are many forts in other places, 

 which I do not know any thing of here. Its body is beautifully 

 variegated, red, black, and white on the wings ; and grey on the 

 back ; the hen is only of a blue-grey : the fcarceft are thole that 

 are green, with red tufts of feathers on the head. 



The Droffel Turdus, the Thrum, which is called here Troft, Drofla, or 

 and by a common name, which comprehends many fpecies, Krams, KrametsfusI * 

 or Krametsfugl ; the difference in the Norway Droflelaes, from 

 the Danilh, coniifts, as far as I can find, only in this, that fome 

 are greyifh, with white feathers under the breaft, fome of a dark 

 brown, and fome quite black. Thefe are called Soelforter. 

 Some are dark grey, with a white ring round the neck. Thefe 

 are called Ringe Troft, the Ring Owzel. Jac Klein, preferable 

 to other writers, has given himfelf a particular deal of trouble to 

 find out the charaaeriftick marks of each kind of Bird in his 

 generation; and reckons, L. C. p, 65, & feq. not lefs than thirty- 

 fix diverfe forts of Thrufhes ; yet I am of opinion that one may 

 m this, as in other things, multiply fpecies without occafion, 

 and thereby confufe one's ideas, inftead of clearing up or eftablifh- 

 ing them ; for between fome of thefe the difference is fo fmalf 

 that I look upon it to be rather accidental than fpecifick. In the 

 Autumn here are a great many Kramsfugl, particularly when 

 there is a good feafon of berries, which, with other produ£s of 

 forefts, are known to be their food. 



The Due, or Pigeons, tame, and feveral others, are frequent d™ 

 here, but Turtle-doves are not found with us. We have Wood 

 Pigeons, and particularly about the rocks, in confiderable num. 

 bers Willughby fays, Ornitholog. Lib. ii. p. I3 6, that they 

 are iomethmg larger than common Pigeons, which they otherwiie 

 are very like: in this country it is the contrary, for they are 

 rather lefs, On the iflands at the fea-fide in Ryefvlke there are 

 found a fort of wild Pigeons, which are like the tame, excepting 

 that they are all of one colour, with blue mining feathers on the 

 neck. They build their neft in the cracks of rocks, and are not 

 fo ihy as the Wood Pigeons. 



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