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are valuable, being of a peculiar foftnefs, and much efteemed on 
account of their lightnefs and warmth. This bird is eafily taken, 
and will not readily quit its neft on the approach of a man. 
The fea-coafts abound with pelicans, cormorants, and other 
birds, which breed moil plentifully in holes of rocks fcarcely ac- 
ceffible: the Laplanders, however, contrive to take the eggs of 
thefe fowls in confiderable quantities, and oftentimes the birds 
themfelv.es by means of baited hooks fattened to ropes. 
I thall conclude this feclion by giving a lift of the quadrupeds 
and birds peculiarly belonging to Lapland and Finland, according 
to the fyflem of Linnaeus. 
Quadrupeds. 
Cams Lagapus ; the w'hite fox, likewife the black, and the one 
marked with a crofs upon the back: thefe are generally 
confidered as varieties, though fome naturalifts feem in¬ 
clined to diftinguifh them as fpecies. 
Viverra Lutreola, or Mnjlcla Lutreola, (by the Finlanders called TA 
clmri) refembles the marten. 
Mujiela Gulo , or Urfus Gulo , the glutton. 
Mitjiela Nivalis, the white weefel. 
Urfus Ardos, the bear. 
Caflor Fiber, the beaver. 
Mus Letnnus, the Lapland marmot; in fome years very abundant. 
Sciurus, the fquirrel. 
Ccr-vus Tar and us, the rein-deer. 
Birds. 
