NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 9? 



fpecio 8c cavent motu fe prodere. Tantae fimplicitatis funt, at a 

 venatoribus difpofitam lapidum feriem tranfire non audeant, See 

 The laft words put me in mind, that in many other places they 

 make ftone walls without mortar, which the Partridges will not 

 go over ; but here in Norway the farmers make a kind of a fence 

 in the fnow, of furz, at the ends of which they put their fnares, 

 into which the filly Birds run, and are caught. 



The Hawk is a great enemy to them, and they are fo frightned 

 by that Bird fometimes, that they fly into the hands of men ; 

 but they do not find themfelves there better protected. 



SECT. V. 



The Sandtserne, is a Norvegian Bird, unknown to me ; which sandtsem^ 

 J. Ramus, amongft others, only names, p. 249. 



The Sandtal, or Lapwing, called alfo Tendelob, is, without sandtai. 

 doubt, the fame as is otherwife called by a fhorter name, Ten. 

 This laft, of which I have a circumftantial account, are a fort of 

 Strand Gulls, tho' very different from thofe forts before defcrib'd; 

 they are not near fo large, and are moft like the fmaller kind. 

 In colour they are fomewhat like a blue Gull, white underneath, 

 with fome black feathers at the extremity of their wings and 

 tail; and on their head they have a mighty pretty little black 

 crown, a red longifh bill, fmall red legs, and, juft above their 

 eyes, a fmall red mark. 



This Bird remains here but a fhort time, namely, from about 

 Midfummer-day until Autumn, and lays in the mean time three 

 grey fpotted eggs, like Pigeons eggs : in eight days the young 

 are hatch'd, and in a very few more are fully able to provide for 

 themfelves: by which we fee how nature operates, according to 

 time and opportunity. Their food is infecls and fmall fifh, 

 which fwim pretty high in the water, or run in upon the flats : 

 they do not take them with their bill, but with their wings, 

 which are of a confiderable length ; and they do it in this man- 

 ner : they fly feveral fathom high, and draw their wings toge- 

 ther, and then drop down fuddehly upon the fifh like a ftone; 

 then they grafp their prey with their wings, and carry them 

 away prifoners. 



The Savorren, is a pretty large Sea-Bird, in body and neck Savorrem 

 not unlike the Growfe, but belonging to the Goofe or Duck 

 kind ; for they are whole footed. We have no very exa£t 

 account of them, for they are not feen longer in thefe feas than 

 the month of January and beginning of February j they then, 



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