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with the fact that I had watched the bird I had fired at 

 fly off with a broken quill-feather in his wing, and after- 

 wards saw him flying about whilst the other was in 

 the nest. 



So we turned homewards, disconsolate, but I deter- 

 mined to come back next day with a longer rope and 

 solve the mystery. 



On our way home we caught a female Lemming among 

 big stones with some difficulty, and we had a ' ghssade ' 

 down a steep snow slope. (N.B. — We would not have 

 been the worse of leather !) 



We were right glad of the beer we had cacheed, and 

 about 8 or 9 p.m. we reached home very tired. 



June 16. 



On Friday, the 16th of June, which was a warm day, 

 but not so hot as the previous day, starting at 10 a.m., 

 we carioled up again to Smedalsvand, having packed up 

 first some things we want at Nystuen. On the way we 

 met Knut Nystuen with a party of tourists. 



Alston drove on to Nystuen, and I, accompanied by 

 Ole and Lars, went again to Valdersdal. Again we saw 

 the same Reindeer. 



This time we went to the top of the rock and at once 

 lowered Lars down. This time off came the bird— not 

 dead or wounded, as we had supposed, but all right. She 

 soon turned and came flying straight towards us. When 

 I raised my gun she turned up her breast and deviated to 

 the left, and I gave her one barrel. She was hit in the 

 head, and fell down far below on a patch of dwarf birch 

 and juniper, quite dead this time. And now I knew my 

 bird to be — what I had all along suspected — a fine speci- 

 men, light-coloured, and old, of Archibuteo lagopus. In 

 vain Lars tried to get to the nest, which contained three 

 eggs ; from the top and from the bottom, at least half a 



