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The NoddeSkriger is of the fize of a Pigeon; in colour it isNodde 

 blue and white : it haunts the oak and hazel trees. sknger. 



Orn, the Eagle, Aquila, a well-known, large > ftrong and o ra . 

 majeftic Bird, is held amongft Birds as the lion among ft the 

 beafts, for king. J. Klein reckons, p. 41, eight forts of Eagles^ 

 of which two only are known here, namely, the Rock-Eagle,, 

 and the Fifh-Eagle; the firft is alfo called here the Slag-^Orn: it 

 is fomething lefs than the other, and fpotted with grey $ it haunts 

 the highefl places in the country, and kills hares, fheep, lambs 

 and the like animals., as well as Birds ; and if one may believe 

 the farmers accounts, they add; that he will attack a deer fbme- 

 times: in this enterprize he makes ufe of this ftratagem • he 

 foaks his wings in water, and then covers them with land and 

 gravel, with which he flies againft the deer's face, and blinds 

 him for a time ; the pain of this fets him running about like a 

 diftrafted creature, and frequently he tumbles down a rock or 

 fbme fteep place 3 and breaks his neck ; thus he becomes a prey 

 to the Eagle. Many have affured me, that the fame device is 

 pra&ifed by this Bird on holies, particularly the old and worn 

 out; and I have both heard; and read in foreign authors, many 

 accounts of their carrying away children of two or three years 

 old, but never believed it, till a very worthy man, who was 

 well acquainted with the facl, affured me of the following inci- 

 dent. In the year 1737, in the parifh of Norderhougs on Rin- 

 geringe, a boy of about two years old had got out into the 

 fields to look for his parents, who were at work pretty near the 

 houfe, but not near enough to fave this child from an Eagle 

 who ftuck his talons into him, and flew away with him, which 

 the poor parents beheld with inexpreflible grief and anguifL 

 Hr. Anderfon, in his Defcription of Iceland, § xxxviii. p. m. 

 38. fays, that children of four or five years old have been taken 

 away by ^ the Eagles ; which the learned anonymous Icelander, 

 who has illuftrated the Danifh tranflation with his comment 

 doubts, p. 282, in regard to the age. Ray * gives an account 

 of a child of a year old, in the Orkney iflands, that was carried 

 away four miles by an Eagle to his neft, where the mother found 

 it unhurt, and took it away : many more fuch inftances may be 

 met with in authors, as a warning to carelefi parents, 



* Quas infantulum unius anni pannis involutum arripuit (quern mater teffelas uffi- 

 biles pro igne allatura, momento temporis depofaerat in loco Hautonhead dido) eum- 

 que deportaffe per 4 millia paffuum ad Hoyam. Qua re ex matris ejulatu coenita, 

 quatuor vin llluc in navicula profcfti funt, & fcientes ubi nidus effet, infantulum ill se- 

 fum & mtadtum deprehenderunt. Ray. Prodom. Hift. Nat. Scot, 



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