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Fig. 3. Razorbill Auks. Rocky Coast of Kott. 



•ever, that such occurrences are but accidents, and at the best extremely 

 rare. The resident birds in Norway are chiefly boreal forms and some 

 few of them are circumpolar in distribution, and are therefore found, 

 not only in this country, but throughout northern Europe and Asia. 

 ■On the other hand, the migratory land birds comprise those species 

 which during the spring and summer pass up into the country from 

 southern and western Europe, to return in the autumn. Many of 

 these breed there, and their habits are well known to continental 

 ornithologists. As to the water birds, the coasts, inlets, fjords and 

 estuaries of Norway abound with them, as do many of the inland 

 lakes and streams. Some of these numerous species are resident; a 

 large number are migratory; and, as we should naturally expect, 

 * stragglers ' from other lands and seas occur there from time to time. 

 Not a few of the species are common to our Atlantic coasts, and a 

 few others are of almost cosmopolitan distribution, in so far as the 

 northern hemisphere is concerned. 



Among the land birds there are represented the thrushes and their 

 allies, various kinds of warblers; the dipper; titmice, nuthatch, the 

 wrens, creeper, wagtails, pipits (one being peculiar to Norway), oriole 

 and shrikes; flycatchers, finches and swallows; crossbills; the starling; 

 crows and their allies; larks; swifts; the nightjar; woodpeckers and 



