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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
arctic fox; the female lays five eggs, the male 
fings melodioufly near the neft. 
When they collect together in autumn, on the 
fhores, in order to migrate, they are caught in 
numbers and dried, by the Laplanders, who take 
them in hair fpringes. 
The ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
The quill feathers are black ; the three firft feathers in 
the tail arewhitilh on their margin, the reft black, the inner 
ends of the outmofl. feathers are marked with a great fpot 
of white. 
This fpecies is migratory, and not found very 
far to the north; their winter refidence is not 
very well known; they appear with the Swal¬ 
lows in fpring, and fing very pleafingly in the 
night. 
Their neft is conftru&ed without much art, 
they lay four or five eggs, and breed twice in the 
fummer. When they firft arrive, they are very 
lean. By epicures they are efieemed a moft de¬ 
licious food. In order to be fattened the$ are 
confined in a room which is lighted by lanthorns; 
it is fuppofed that this uniform light, keeps them 
quiet, and that they fatten the better; they are 
fed with oats, and millet, until they become one 
lump 
