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bergen, where vegetation is nearly extinct, and scare 1 
any but cryptoyamious plants are found. It tlierct 
excites wonder, how birds, which are graminivorous^^, 
every other than those frost-bound regions, j 
yet are there found in great flocks both on the 1* ^ 
and ice of Spitzbergen.* They annually pass to ‘ 
country by way of Norway ; for, in the spring, 
innumerable a]>pear, especially on the Norwegian 
continue only three weeks, and then at once disapp*’® ip 
As they do not breed in Hudson’s Bay, it is 
that many retreat to this last of lands, and totally 
inhabited, to perform, in full security, the dutie|' .j, 
love, incubation, and nutrition. That they bret'di^^j 
Spitzbergen, is very probable ; but we are assured 
they do so in Greenland. They arrive there in 
and make their nests in the fissures of the rocks, oO 
mountains, in May ; the outside of their nest is 
the middle of feathers, and the lining the down ot 
Arctic fox. They lay five eggs, wliite, spotted " 
brown : they sing finely near their nest. tpC 
“ They are caught by the boys in autumn when < ^ 
collect near the shores in great flocks, in order 
migrate; and are eaten dried. J g 
“ In Europe, they inhabit, during summer, the 
naked Lapland Alps, and descend in rigorous scuf .|,|i 
into Sweden, and fill the roads and fields ; on " ‘ J. 
account the Dalecarlians call them illivarsfogel, ot ' .j- 
weather birds — the Uplanders, hardwarsfogel, '‘-'’I' 
sive of the sjirae. The Laplanders style them 
LeemsJ remarks, I Icnow not with what founda'^^];, 
that they tatten on the flowing of the tides in 
and grow lean on the ebb. The Laplanders take 
in great numbers in hairsprings, for the tables, ‘ 
flesh being very delicate. .jijjlf 
“ They seem to make the countries ndthin the 
Arctic circle their summer residence, from whence 
Lord ]\Iut.grave’s Voyage^ 188 j Martin’s Voyo-g^’ 
f Leems, 256. 
\ Faun. Greenland, 118. § Finmark, 255. 
