FAUNA ORCADENSIS.

OR,

THE NATURAL HISTORY

OF THE

QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, REPTILES, AND FISHES,

OF

ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.

BY

THE REV. GEORGE LOW,

MINISTER OF BIRSA AND HARAY.

From a Manuscript in the possession of WM. ELFORD LEACH, M. D. F. L. S. &c.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY GEORGE RAMSAY AND COMPANY,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH; AND FOR LONGMAN,
HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, AND WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO.

LONDON.

1813.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR JOSEPH BANKS, K. B. &c. &c.

WHOSE GENEROUS PATRONAGE OF SCIENCE

HAS EXTENDED

EVEN TO THE OBSCURE LABOURS OF THE AUTHOR,

THIS BOOK,

AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

} BY HIS OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.