46 Messrs. H. H. Slater and T. Carter's 



extracting chickens in small pieces, to vow that in Iceland 

 birds laid their eggs " hard sat/' 



We do not feel called upon to be too precise as to localities^ 

 but we shall always be ready to furnish information to brother 

 ornithologists by letter. We may be pardoned for taking 

 this course, as one of us has reason to believe that he has 

 already, unwittingly, done harm in being too confidential. 

 The year after he had published his experiences on the Dovre 

 Fjeld, he received a letter from Mr, CoUett, which men- 

 tioned that an English collector had just visited the same 

 localities and had simply exterminated the rarer birds. 



Redwing. [Turdus iliacus.) 



Abundant in the birch woods. We found only one nest 

 with eggs, on June 27. We saw many young birds the same 

 day, some just fledged, some full-grown and almost as long- 

 tailed as their parents. Whenever the sun shone we heard 

 with great pleasure the rich wild note of this bird all over 

 the birch woods. 



Northern Wren. [Troglodytes borealis.) 



Mr. W. E. Clarke (Ibis, 1885, p. 376) states that this bird 

 '^occurs in the brushwood of the Fnjoska.'' We can only 

 say that for some days we searched this locality most care- 

 fully for it and for its nest, but entirely without success. 

 Nor can we think that we overlooked it. The inhabitants, 

 most of whom seem to have a fair general knowledge of their 

 local birds, usually appeared to know of the bird by the name 

 '^ Musarbro'Sir,'' but no one seemed to have seen the bird 

 itself, or could tell us where to look for it. Considering the 

 trouble we took to find it in different places, considering, 

 too, the very small number and limited area of the woods in 

 which it would most probably occur, we feel justified in put- 

 ting it down as, at all events, extremely rare in the north ; 

 for it is not, like one of the rarer Waders, for example, a bird 

 which might be easily overlooked in the vast stretches of 

 likely marsh and " hei^i " ground. 



Mealy Redpoll. (Linota linaria.) 



We found this bird often very abundant, as well as generally 



