B/L ATE XH, 
Authors agree that they are ftupid filly birds, and are fo tame as to 
be drawn into any fnare; or fuffer themfelves to be taken by the hand; 
if the hen is killed the male will not forfake her. The Greenlanders 
take them with noofes tied to a long line, which being carried by two 
men is drawn over their heads. 
* Their food confifts of the buds of trees, young fhoots of cr. 
heath, fruits, and berries which grow on the mountains: on the con- 
tinent they feed on the Dwarf Birch and Black-berried Heath, or 
f{ometimes on the various kinds of Liver-wort. 
“< They tafte fo like a Grous as to be fcarcely diftinguifhed; like 
the Grous they keep in {mall packs; but never like thofe birds take 
fhelter in the heath; but beneath loofe ftones.”’ 
In winter they lie in heaps, in lodges which they form under the 
snow. 
_ * Pennant, 
