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that they are companions of the Owks and others, but are Ampler, 

 and eafier catch' d. The hen lays but one egg at a time, flie 

 hatches it in four weeks, ana m all that time does not ftir from 

 it : flie is fed by the cock till the young one is three weeks old, 

 and then the mother takes it with her to the ocean on her back. 

 Of thefe kind are frequently found feveral hundreds in a place, 

 lying fo clofe together, that the rock is covered with them. When 

 the mother feeds her young, then they fit up backwards, and 

 fhe ftretches her neck under her wing, to reach the young one's 

 bill. If it is the fir ft time that the fowler comes to the place, 

 fo that the Birds do not know bis intentions by experience, then 

 they'll fit and fuffer themfelves to be killed ; but if they fly 

 away, and come again, then each young one knows how to find 

 its mother's wing, as each bee does its cell., though there is no 

 difference in their make. 



The Lax-Tite, is a Water-bird, in appearance like a Skade, Lax-Tite. 

 but with long red legs, and a red bill. This has its name from 

 this lingular circumftance, that it. particularly in, the Spring, 

 when the Salmon comes up the rivers, follows that fifti, and teems 

 pleafed in its company, hovering on the water where it partes : it 

 is a kind of a fignal to the fifhermen. 



The Lerke, the Lark: of this bird we have here two fbrts, Lerke. 

 one called the Singing Lark, which we find only in Summer: 

 this is of a brown colour, and builds in heath, and among fmall 

 bullies, but is hard to be found. The other is the Korn Lerke : 

 this is fomething larger, and it is feen ofteneft in the Winter ; yet 

 both forts are feen fbmetimes in large flat countries,, and alfb on 

 feme of the iflands. 



The Lom, Liom, Lunv, the Northern Diver, which 01. Wor-Lom. 

 mius, inMufeo, p. 304, calls Col ymbum Arcticum, is a Water- 

 bird, not quite fo large as the before defcribed Immer, or Ember, 

 but otherwife like it ; but yet more like the Razor-bill (which 

 has been before defcribed) excepting that the neck is thicker, and 

 the bill is fharper. Its bignefs may be known from this, that they 

 fometimes weigh two pounds. They are all over of a moufe-grey, 

 and fomewhat lighter under the breaft : tho' their wings are but 

 fmall, yet they fly pretty well; but they walk extremely flow, 

 and with difficulty *, becaufe their legs ftand fo far backwards, 

 under their tail, as they do on the Immeren and Razor-bill ] 



* From this Bird's bad gait Schefferus derives his name, in his Lappon, c; 30, where 

 Lomme, or Lumme, he fays, is the fame as Lame, Halting, or Limping, claudicare ; 

 but that I will not determine. In the fame place he talks of Wormii Mergis, or 

 Halv-yEnder, whofe pointed bill alone diftinguifties it and many others from the 



common clafTe. 



therefore 



