. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. BUSTARD. STARE. WATER OUZEL. The cock of the Black Game has been known in Sweden to cover the common donnefl'C Hen, which did produce a barren fpurious breed. T]i(; Great Bustard is very common in Scama, or Schotmi; bur Profcjror Reizius informs me, he never faw nor heard of it in that province. The StaTxE winters in Denmark, but fometimes never quits Scania.— Mr, Oedman. The Water Ouzel is ufed by the Ruffiana as a remedy againft the dropfy. The whole bird, unfeathered, is reduced to aflies in a pot j it is taken in one dofe,
. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. BUSTARD. STARE. WATER OUZEL. The cock of the Black Game has been known in Sweden to cover the common donnefl'C Hen, which did produce a barren fpurious breed. T]i(; Great Bustard is very common in Scama, or Schotmi; bur Profcjror Reizius informs me, he never faw nor heard of it in that province. The StaTxE winters in Denmark, but fometimes never quits Scania.— Mr, Oedman. The Water Ouzel is ufed by the Ruffiana as a remedy againft the dropfy. The whole bird, unfeathered, is reduced to aflies in a pot j it is taken in one dofe, and a£ls as an abforbent.—Mr. Oedman faw tt fucceed beyond all expeftat'on in an a/cites: his father, a gentleman eighty years of age, almoft fuffocated with a quincy, and with his fto- mach greatly fwellcd, was rcftorcd to health in four days by this fimple remedy only, and has furvived, in good health, feven years fince the trial. The fong of the Redwing differs from that of the mufical Thrush, in moft eflential notes.—Mr. Oedman. Mr. Arcillander obferves, in the A£l. Stockholm, 1786, that the Golden Oriole rtiwrmtoSavolax, m Finland, in the endofiVfrty, and retires in September: that it is much more frequent in the north of that province than the fouth, living in the birch woods along the coafls. Two males attend one female: is it therefore biandrous ? During fum- mcr, they keep, by threes or fours together: towards autumn the flocks increafe in numbers: foretel ftorms by an alteration in their whiftle. They fly like Thruflies: are timid birds, yet very ir ;v ible, and will bite very hard: are io tenacious of life, that one which was fhot through by two great fhots, lived two days. The flefh is as good as that of the Thrurti.—Mr. Oedm/tn 7 Doftor 63 3H. 3^1. 3JI. 33- 342. 343. If 4ld , J ; ' ! ' 'h , I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illu
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