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CHAPTER IV. 



Continuation of BIRDS. 



Sect. I. Of the Francolin, the Lumme, and others. Sect. II. Of the Black- 

 cap, the Larke, the Lumme, the Pope, and others. Sect. III. Of Gulls of 

 feveral kinds ; of the Eagle, and many others. Sect. IV. Of the Raven, 

 Cormorant, and others. Sect. V. Of the Lapwing, the Magpye, and 

 others. Sect. VI. Of the Starling, the Stork and others. Sect. VII. Of 

 the Cock of the Wood, and others. Sect. VIII. Of the Quail, the Owl, and 

 others. 



SECT. I. 



¥ E R P E, or j as fome exprefs it, Hierpe, the Francolin, is jerpe. 

 ^ an excellent Land-Bird : it ferves the Norvegians inftead of 

 Pheafant and Moor-game • and is called by feme the Norwegian 

 Ager-Hone, and differs very little from the Bird of that name 

 in Denmark, but it is fbmething lefs, and almoft like a Pigeon or 

 Partridge ; but in feathers and colour it is more like the Wood- 

 gam ; it is variegated in ftripes. For its white, found and tender 

 flefh, and its delicious tafte, I prefer it to all kind of Fowl I know 

 of. The fowler entices it to him by blowing in a pipe, that founds 

 like the voice of its mate. In the diocefe of Aggerfhuus and Tron- 

 hiem, where they are in great numbers, they don't prefer any 

 thing to the Jerpe roafted. On Kolens mountains they are in 

 abundance ; and, according to Schefferi's account, in fuch vaft 

 numbers as cannot be counted. Willughby, who is not in the 

 wrong by counting them a fpecies of Ager-Hons, fays, that the 

 Italians, who have them from the Sicilian and other high moun- 

 tains, call them Francolini, quafi Franci, i. e. Liberi feu immunes • 

 becaufe they know thefo Birds are a fort of prohibited game, being 

 referved for the nobility only. And again it ftands in the fame 

 clafs, namely Ornithologise, Lib. II. §. ii. p. 12.5. Hsec avis 

 vel eadem eft noftrse Lagopodi alteri, Regdame di£he, vel ei 

 affinis. DifFert faltem, quod caput habeat criftatum. Bellonii 

 auterri Attagen crifta deftituta eft. Ego fane eandem crederem, 

 mil locus obftaret. Noftra enim juga montium altiflimorum 

 feptentrionalium incolit, cum Aldrovandi Attagen in Sicilise 



Region is 



