. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . exception, as far as our navi-gators have been able to penetrate. Great flocks havebeen seen upon the ice near the shores of are known to breed in Greenland, where the fe-male makes her nest in the fissures of the mountainrocks •, the outside is composed of grass, within which isa layer of feathers, and the down of the arctic fox com-poses the lining of its comfortable little mansion: shelays five white eggs, spotted with brown. These birdsdo not perch, but continue always on the ground, andrun about like Larks, to
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . exception, as far as our navi-gators have been able to penetrate. Great flocks havebeen seen upon the ice near the shores of are known to breed in Greenland, where the fe-male makes her nest in the fissures of the mountainrocks •, the outside is composed of grass, within which isa layer of feathers, and the down of the arctic fox com-poses the lining of its comfortable little mansion: shelays five white eggs, spotted with brown. These birdsdo not perch, but continue always on the ground, andrun about like Larks, to which they are similar in size,manners, and in the length of their hinder claws, v^rhencethey have been ranged with birds of that class by someauthors, but are now with more propriety referred to theBuntings, from the peculiar stru6hjre of the bill. Theyare said to sing sweetly, sitting on the ground. On theirfirst arrival In this country they are very lean; but soongrow fat, and are considered as delicious food. TheHighlands of Scotland abound with «£V*^^S5r^^^^r^ ^^., . _ 170 BRITISH BIIIDS-
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