6g THE NATURAL HISTORY 
-fornierly were fold,’ The Greenlanders make 
comfortable fhirts of their fkins, placing their 
feathers on the infide next the body. “The wo- 
men ufe‘the black feathers of the tail as ornaments 
in their head drefles. They catch thefe birds in 
, nooles, hung to a line, which is carried by two 
men, one at each end, who drop the noofes 
round the necks of thefe poor unfufpeding birds. 
They are fometimes knocked down with ftones, | 
and fometimes fhot with guns. | 
‘When the female is killed, the male is fo Rad 
thet he will feldom be driven from her body. 
- The Greenlanders eat them fometimes drefled, 
: and fometimes raw, when they are nearly putrid, 
with the blubber or the fat of feals. ~~ 
"The inteftines they confider as a great iene: 
and mix them va sir oil and berries. 
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Another fpecies called the White Grous, 0 or 
White Partridge, is found at Hudfon’s Bay ; 
is marked with large {pots of white and date 
orange; lives in flocks in Winter, and feeds on 
the tops of willows. They have from nine to 
eleven young. They fuffer themfelves to be 
- driven under nets, and many thoufands are taken 
-that way every winter. 
The 

