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“ fet in very fevere, and it ferves to the peafant as a fign, that the 
“ cold will be intenfe, and the fnow abundant. This happened 
“ in the year 1 796, according to Dr. Eklund’s * obfervation, wdio 
“ had the goodnefs to procure me a fpecimen of this bird, which 
“ was hitherto quite unknown. At firfl fight it feems to refem- 
“ ble the common pie, but it is lefs by one-fourth part, and dit- 
“ fers from it in its manners and habits. The tail tapers to a 
“ point, the feathers being of unequal length : the feathers of the 
“ belly, the upper part and points of the wings, are white ; the 
“ neck, breafl, the fore part of the wings, the thighs, and the tail, 
“ of an afh-colour, with this difference, however, that the tail is 
“ more light above : the beak and the legs are black.” 
There is a peculiar kind of fowl commonly found in the woods 
throughout Finmark and all Norway, which feems to be a variety 
of the buflard or dotterel. To the male the Norwegians give 
the name of todder, which they pronounce as if written dotter ; 
the female they call roey. The male is about the fize of a full- 
grown turkey of the largeft breed, and like that fowl he occa- 
fionally fpreads his tail and fhakes his w r ings : his belly has black 
and w T hite feathers, his back and wings are of an afh-colour. 
The hen is not fo large as the cock ; her wings and body have 
feathers of a dufky yellow, with fpots. The flefh of this fowl is 
equally efleemed with that of the common buflard. 
Partridges are very numerous; they are of two forts, the one 
* Dr. Eklund is a dlflinguifhed ornithologift, and particularly converfant with 
the Swedifh birds. 
frequenting 
