


In the winter 1778, they came in fuch multitudes 
to one of the Orkney iflands, as almoft to cover 
- it, yet fcarcely any two agreed exactly in colour: 
they make the Feroeiflands, Shetland, and the Ork- - 
nies their refting places; they abound in the highe 
Jandsin Scotland ; their flocks are fo great, and they 
Alyfo clofe together, that the fowlers deftroy great - 
numbers. When they firft arrive, they are very 
lean, but foon become fat, and are a delicious food. 
. InScotland they are called Snow Flakes, and afew 
breed like the Ptar migans on the higheft hills. In 
: their fummer feathers, they are often feerin the 
_ fouth of England; now and then a milk white one 
 isfound. In Ruffia and Sweden, the flocks are 
 immenfe; they frequent villages, fome are whites. 
fame fpeckled, fome brown, and even. their win- 
a ter drefs feems as various, as their fummer plu- 
mage; they. are found alfo in Germany, where 
they are caught, and fed with millet, and are as: 
“delicious food as the Ortolan. 
ely the {pring, they. are feen: in valk flocks in: 
a Norway, and. ftay about three weeks : they — 
_. then return to the > “dreary northern regions, in, 
| order to breed-in fecurity. ‘They arrive in Green- 
land about April, build their nefts in the clefts of 
_ ¥ocks, in the mountains, in May; the outfide is: 
a seals, it is lined with feathers, and the fur of the: 
D rs artic 
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