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GENERAL REMARKS 
frequenting the mountains, the other keeping to the plain. In 
fummer they are of the colour they are feen elfewhere, but in 
winter they have white feathers; and when they lie half covered 
with fnow, they are fcarcely difcernible from it. Partridges are 
taken by the Laplanders in great numbers after the following 
manner : a low hedge is made with twigs of the birch-tree, open¬ 
ings being left at Email diflances juft large enough for the birds to 
creep through. In thefe openings fprings are placed of cows’ hair, 
with a running noofe; and the partridges, coming to feed on the 
buds of the birchen boughs, and endeavouring to pafs thefe holes, 
are taken in the fnare. 
Pigeons and doves (called by the natives of Norway rhigel due) 
are found in many parts of Finmark, and on the borders of Ruffia, 
but they are by no means a common bird. There is a kind of 
plover fcharadrius) which, in the Danifh language, is called brok- 
fugl, much admired for the gloffy black of its feathers, and the 
delicacy of its ffefh. This bird is very common in Denmark, and 
frequently found in Finmark; it appears early in the fpring, and 
is not feen after the fummer is paft, during which time it makes, 
its nefl, and breeds its young, which have at firft brown fpotted 
feathers that arc afterwards replaced by black. Of this bird there 
are found fome varieties, which have dilferent names. 
Befides thefe, there are feveral forts of thrufhes, the flefh of 
which is thought to be delicate. There are likewife woodcocks, 
fnipes, fnow birds, linnets, goldfinches, fifkins, and a variety of 
other Email birds. The cuckoo is found here, but the ftarling, 
the 
