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In Bergen, where we had only a few hours, we changed for a 

 comfortable Norwegian coast-steamer. These steamers stop at dif- 

 ferent small harbours, but generally the stop is too short to see 

 anything of the surrounding country. Only in a very few harbours 

 I could leave the steamer for some time. 



I did not see great numbers of birds along the Norwegian coast, 

 owing to the fact that the Norwegian coast-Steamers do not pass 

 the large breeding colonies, which are to be found more to the 

 West, as e. g. on Lovunden and Threnen. So I saw comparatively 

 few Razorbills and Guillemots along the Norwegian coast. Only 

 Gulls, especially Lesser Black-backed, Herring- and Common Gulls 

 are very numerous. Black Guillemots are plentiful along the coast. 

 They do not breed in large colonies, but everywhere they are met 

 with in small parties. I did not see many Puffins on our trip, but 

 on Fuglö (south of Bodo) there was a large colony, where hundreds 

 of these birds flew to and fro. There were a great many Eiderducks, 

 especiahy north of Trondhjem, where the so-called Nordland begins. 

 On several Eiderholms artiücial nests are put and so it is very easy 

 to collect their down and eggs. Skua's {parasiticus) — principally 

 the dark form, hght birds were rarer — were numerous in Nord- 

 land. A bird often found, especially in the neighbourhood of the 

 Lofodes, is the Red-throated Diver, which is much persecuted in 

 Norway, because it is thought to harm the Salmon-fishery. Cor- 

 morants and Shags are plentiful, the latter not so abundant as the 

 former, however. 



I saw only a few landbirds: Ravens and Hooded Crows, which 

 breed on the rocks, are about the only landbirds, which can be 

 observed from the steamer, especially near the large fish-harbours, 

 where they can always find plenty of food. In Tromsö, where we 

 arrived on June 19, we had a few days' delay, in which I made 

 a trip to the beautiful Tromsö-valley (Tromsdal), opposite the town. 

 Here I had a good opportunity to see something of the birds, living 

 in the large birch-woods of Northern Scandinavia. These are Field- 

 fares, Redpolls and Bramblings principally. There are also many 

 Magpies, which are very tame, Reed-Buntings, Tree-Pipits, Wheatears, 

 Willow- Warblers, Stars etc. 



In Tromsö I had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of some 

 members of the Oxford university Expedition to Spits- 

 bergen, 1921, who were there at that moment with their expe- 

 dition-ship. The other members of the expedition, with their leader 



