The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . als actual clouds of fovvl suddenly emergefrom the ground either to swarm round in the air or else to Hyout to sea, and at the same time those that remain make theirpresence underground kuown by an unceasing cackling and din,resembling, according to Friedrich Martens, the noise of acrowd of quarrelling women. Should this sound be stilled fora few moments, one need only attempt in some opening among the stones to imitate their cry(according to Martens: roU-tct-iet
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . als actual clouds of fovvl suddenly emergefrom the ground either to swarm round in the air or else to Hyout to sea, and at the same time those that remain make theirpresence underground kuown by an unceasing cackling and din,resembling, according to Friedrich Martens, the noise of acrowd of quarrelling women. Should this sound be stilled fora few moments, one need only attempt in some opening among the stones to imitate their cry(according to Martens: roU-tct-iet-tet-tct) to get immediatelyeager and sustained replies fromall sides. The fowl circling inthe air soon settle again on thestones of the mountain slopes,where, squabbling and fighting,they pack themselves so closetogether that from fifteen to thirtyof them may be killed by a singleshot. A portion of the flock nowflies up again, others seek theirsafety like rats in concealmentamong the blocks of stone. Butthey soon creep out again, into fly out to sea and search forof Crustacea and vermes. Thesingle blueish-white egg is laid on. THE LITTLE AUK, OK RoTUE. Swedish, Alkekung. {Mergiilus AUc, L.) order, as if by agreement,their food, which consistsrotge dives with ease. Itsthe bare ground withoufa nest, so deep down among the stonesthat it is only with difficulty that it can be got at. In thetalus of the mountains north of Horn Sound I found on the18th June, 1858, two eggs of this bird lying directly on thelayer of ice between the stones. Probably the hatching seasonhad not then begun. Where the main body of these flocks ofbirds passes the winter, is unknown,^ but they return to thenorth early—sometimes too early. Thus in 1873 at the endof April I saw a large number of rotges frozen to death on It deserves to be investigated whether some little auks do not, like theSpitzbergen ptarmigan, pass the winter in their stone mounds, flying outto sea only at pretty long intervals in order
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