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Besides the Kittiwake, there breed on Sverholtklubben only a 
few stray Razorbills and Guillemots (Alca torda and Lomvia trotle), 
some Tysties (Uvia grylle), and the two kinds of Cormorant (Phala- 
crocovax cavbo and Ph. graculus), but all these together are quite lost 
sight of among the countless gulls. 
High over these swarms of birds there commonly soar in 
majestic calm, a pair of Sea-eagles (Haliaétus albicilla), which have 
placed their inaccessible nest up under the summit of the moun- 
tain. But the constant sight of the mighty pirate, who by 
merely making a swing with his wings can at any time possess 
himself of one of the young Kittiwakes from the open nests, has 
accustomed the denizens of the cliff to the danger, and they take 
little notice of him. Should, on the contrary, a Gyr-falcon (Hiero- 
falco gyrfalco) on its piratical expedition come too near the colony, 
the effect is quite different ; the exasperation of the inhabitants 
is aroused, and as it is not a member of the community, it is 
pursued with loud screams, so long as it remains in sight. 
Before we take leave of the bird-rocks and their residents, 
we will record an event of historic interest, which is connected 
with one of the most easterly of the bird-rocks of Finmarken, 
namely, Horné by Vardé. In the year 1848, there was shot here 
by a man still living, Herr L. Brodtkorb, a bird, which though 
it was not preserved for posterity, was yet so fully described 
by the gunner as to be immediately recognized by naturalists, 
and the remembrance of it also has been so faithfully preserved, 
that any mistake is hardly conceivable. Then, indeed, in all 
probability, was shot the last existing example of that remarkable 
bird, the Garefowl, or Great Auk (Alca impennis). As the author 
has already elsewhere* referred more fully to this occurrence, 
and as the Garefowl never seems to have been a constant inhabi- 
tant of the coast of Norway, we will not here detain ourselves 
longer with its history. 
We must briefly mention what species of birds may be con- 
sidered as the most characteristic in the belt of islands which 
gird the coast of Norway. 
* Mitth. d. Ornith. Vereines in Wien, 1884. 
