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wryneck; cuckoo: eagles, hawks and owls and some of their allies, 

 and some few other forms. Then among the game birds there are 

 ptarmigan, grouse, the famous capercaille, quail, doves, woodcock and 

 others. 



Passing to the water birds the list is still more varied. There is 

 the gannet and two species of cormorant; several waders; swans and 

 geese, and a variety of wild ducks, loons and divers; many snipe, 

 plovers, sandpipers and their allies; curlew; gulls and terns, of which 

 there are numerous species; skuas and petrels; guillemots and auks, 

 and the puffins. In fact the ornis, as a whole, of Norway is by no 

 means an uninteresting one, notwithstanding the fact that the majority 

 of its representatives have been known and described for so many 

 centuries past. With these facts before us then, it can easily be appre- 

 ciated that the birds of Norway offer the photographer of such sub- 

 jects almost as varied a field of bird life as he can find in the United 

 States, and the same is true of their nests and eggs. Again, Norway is 

 • ■specially interesting in her topography and plant life, or flora. That 

 this is so has led many of her bird photographers to include in their 

 pictures more of the surroundings than is usually the case in similar 

 productions taken in this country by American ornithologists. All 

 the photographs illustrating the present article are good examples of 

 this, and, in my opinion, everything else being equal, it gives them an 

 additional value; especially as any one of them will bear enlargement 

 either for lecture purposes or for figures. 



For photography, many of the water birds offer wonderfully attract- 

 ive subjects, and particularly on the coast north of Stavanger, where 





Fig. 4. Nest of Common Gull (Larus canus). (Bratvser.) 



