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for they duck quick under water, and then come up again in a 

 moment. Several {hot may be difcharged to the place where 

 they are expe&ed to appear, but feldom with fuccefs. Thofe 

 that will kill them mud aim at their hinder parts, that the fhot 

 may go in under the feathers; for they grow fo thick, and are 

 fo very foft, that the fhot is damped, and lofes its force, if 

 they are fhot in the fore-parts *. As far as I yet have found, this 

 wonderful Bird feems to be quite unknown in foreign parts ■ for 

 neither Aldrovandus Gefnerus, Willughbeius, Zornius ? or Klein 

 fay any thing of it : they are like wife unknown to many of our 

 Norvegian writers. 



Jo-Fugl, JoTyv, or Jo-Thief, becaufe he robs other Birds, T he Jo . F u g i. 

 is called alfo Kive. It is in (hape like a Strand-Maage., tho' of a 

 darker colour ; and is an enemy to thofe Birds, tho' not a very 

 dangerous one, as may be concluded \ for he only ft rives, in his 

 purfuit after them, to get their prey from them, which he is too 

 lazy to catch for himfelf • or if he can't get that, he'll take the 

 other Birds dung, from whence the Dutch call him Strunt-Jao-er. 

 As foon as the other drops it, 'tis inftantly catched up by the To- 

 Fuglen, and with that he is fatisfied without any further demand : 

 this I am aflured of by many that have obferved it. . The Jo- 

 Fuglen appears in -Norway early in the Spring, and is not feen. 

 after Autumn. Its eggs are like the Maagen's, but fomething 

 darker. See Frid. Martens Spitzbergenske Travels, c. ii. p. 6 2. 



The Irisk is a pretty little finging Bird, very well known : 'tis irifl, 

 found in Oplandet, but not the right genuine fort, as has been 

 obferved by the beft judges. Near Bergen there is a fort of 

 Bird called Knotter, which is different from the Irisk only in the 

 note y in other refpects they are quite alike. 



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The Kiaeld is a Land-Bird, tho' of that fort that lives always k«m. 

 about the fea coaft, and it never goes on the water but to fave 

 itfelf by ducking a little while under water. It is in fize and 

 fhape much like a Pigeon, with a long narrow red bill, and red 



* Being thus mot-proof, perhaps is the origin of this Bird's Iceland name, which is 

 Himbryne, as it armed with a heavenly coat of mail : otherwife there is afcribed 

 another origin to the name, tho' not fo juft, when it is faid in Mufeo Wormiano d 

 303. MergusmaximusFarrenfis, Ferroenfibus Helbrimer, Iflandis Himbryne, quafi 

 lonca coelefti induta. Ejus etymologic rationes ita reddidit D. Stephanus Olavius • 

 Himin ccelum loncam vero Brynia fignificat, juxta illud poets : Brynia gefur ey fei* 

 gufior. 1 e. Lonca non dat morti vicinis vitam. Ratio nominis a colore, St exiftimo, 

 petite eft. - - - Voluerunt Iuandi hac nominis impofitione fignificare, aves hafce 

 pulchernma colorum yanetate & diftmdtione, ufque adeo ornatas cfle, ut did poffint 

 cceleitem quandam loncam induuTe. r 



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