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magpies. The cry of thefe latter refembles not at all 

 the noife of our ruffian magpies, but they rather ling 

 not amifs, though very fofdy, not quite unlike our 

 bulflnch. Here are alfo mews, cranes, herns, fnipes, 

 divers, fturmvogel, alken, and water-fowls; of fea- 

 animals, the beavor, the Shaggy porpois, whales, and 

 feals ; of river-animals, beavors and others. Of land- 

 animals, foxes, wolves, bears, ermines, rein-deer, fa- 

 bles, hares, gluttons, lynxes, tarbagans, and evralliks *, 

 wild fheep, and a fuperior fpecies of porcupine. Of 

 fea-frfh they catch rays, fcaits, and thornbacks, flock- 

 fHh, and herrings. Of river-hlh, Tfhavutlha, keta, 

 nerki, goletz -f*, chaiko, karakalitza rf* , and a peculiar 

 kind of crabs. 



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* The former of thefe two animals I have never found any 

 where elfe mentioned. Evrafhka is explained in the Lexicon of 

 our ruffian academy by lepus dauricus \ and this animal is thus de* 

 fcribed by the celebrated Dr. Pallas : Magnitudo paulo infra lepo- 

 rem alpinum, cui fimillimus. Diftert forma magis ad leporem pu- 

 iillumaccedente,proportionibus quibufdam, coloreetfonna aurium, 

 teneritudine velleris, colore, et anatomicis quibufdam moment is ; de~ 

 inde moribus. Auriculae rotundato fubtriangulae, albidce. Vellus 

 tenerrimum, nitidum, totum fupra gryfeo-paliidum, fubtus albi- 

 dum. Palmar pentadaclylaE;, dentefque, ut in cognatis. Cauda 

 nulla, neque coccyx adipofo tuberculo prominula. — Vivit in cam- 

 pis, montiumque declivibus arenofis, apricis, per totam Danu- 

 riam, cuniculo labyrinthico ; fub autumnum foeni acervos globo- 

 fos congerit et compingit. Vox fere leporis alpini. See Pallas's 

 Travels, vol. iii. p. 692, german edition. 



f Of thefe other untranflated names I have not been able ta 

 lind any explanation. Goletz, according to the tranflation of 

 Lefchk's natural hiflory by M. Oferetzkoflkoi, torn iv. p. 65, 66, 



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