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pipers, five together. Hooded Crows were common, 

 Magpies, flocks of Fieldfares, and three Red-throated 

 Divers close to the village of Hammer. The scenery of 

 the Miosen Vand does not come up to that of many of 

 our Scottish lochs, and is somewhat tame and uninterest- 

 ing. There was much snow lying on some of the wooded 

 hills, scarcely any on others. 



At Gjovik we made our cUhut in our carioles, and drove 

 one Norsk mile (which is equivalent to seven English 

 ones) to Mnstad, which we did in about an hour and 

 twenty minutes, but could have gone faster had it not 

 been for another slow horse and cariole in front, by which 

 a young ofiicer, Lieut. Briiner, of the '2nd Infantry Regi- 

 ment, was posting on to Skoien. We found him extremely 

 civil, and he spoke English. He is also a student in the 

 University, and seems acquainted with the Latin names 

 of various birds. He is going to shoot Black Game at 

 Frydenland, and afterwards to join a party of recruits. 

 Any child could have driven our little ' Heste,' so easy is 

 it ! On our drive we saw but few birds. A Brambling 

 was recognised by the militia officer. 



At Mustad we took a walk with the stick guns before 

 supper, but only shot a Yellowhammer. We saw a 

 Kestrel, Chaffinches, Robin, and Sparrows. The Magpies 

 always seem to prefer to build in the close vicinity of 

 houses. We had a capital supper, including some most 

 original cheese, just like fine brown soap in appearance 

 ['Gede-ost'], but, as Alston put it, 'very goode meate.' 



Mustad is a good station. All about it the country was 

 so deep with snow that it was impossible to go into the 

 woods even to shoot specimens, let alone nesting. The 

 fact is that we were at least a fortnight too soon, but we 

 cannot now help that. 



Herr Collett most kindly gave us a letter of introduc- 

 tion to Dr. Printz, who lives near Slidre, on our route. 



