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VII. — Notes on the Birds observed at Bodo during the spring and 

 summer o/18.57. By Frederick and Percy Godman. 



In 1857, being anxious to make an ornithological tour, we 

 determined to visit Norway, and fixed upon Bodo as our head- 

 quarters, in consequence of the success which had attended the 

 Rev. H. B. Tristram in finding the Great Snipe breeding in 

 that locality. 



The village of Bodo (for, though the capital of the province of 

 Nordland, and consequently the residence of the Amtmand, 

 judge, and magistrates, it cannot be called a town) contains 

 about 300 inhabitants, and is situated on the west coast of 

 Norway, in latitude 67" North, longitude 14° East, The trade, 

 which is unimportant, consists chiefly in the export of dried cod- 

 fish to Spain, Portugal, and the ports of the Mediterranean. 

 The fish are caught during the winter off" the Loffoden Isles, 

 about seventy or eighty miles distant, brought to Bodo, and 

 <3ried during the summer on rocks in the neighbourhood. 



Immediately behind the village extends a large marsh, trian- 

 gular in shape, with the Salten Fjord on the south and east, the 

 sea on the west, and a range of mountains on the north, whicli 

 gradually increase in height as they recede from the plain. The 

 marsh is for the most part covered with grass and bog-plants, 

 with small shrubs of Sallow and Dwarf Birch, which latter are 

 more abundant towards the edges under the mountains. 



About five miles to the north-east of Bodo are situated two 

 large lakes in the mountains, supplied by the melting of the 

 snow from the neighbouring Fjelds. 



We stayed at Bodo till the end of July, working all the sur- 

 rounding country for eggs and birds, and making several short 

 excursions to the interior. We then proceeded northwards to 

 Alten, and crossing the mountains thence to Haparanda, at the 

 head of the Gulf of Bothnia, paid the late Mr. Wolley a hurried 

 visit at his quarters at Muonioniska. From Haparanda we went 

 to Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nijnei-Novgorod, and 

 were then obliged to return in haste to England. 



Circumstances prevented our starting together — Percy arriving 

 April 27th ; Frederick, May 26th. Nothing was done in oology 

 before the end of May, and to the few notes made previous to 



