This paper was written for the Second International Ornithological 
Congress, held in Budapest, in May, 1891, and a portion of it was read 
during one of the meetings of the Congress. The Author wishes there- 
fore to call attention to the fact that it is adapted to an audience whose 
conceptions of the natural features of the country described could not be 
supposed to be great. And in order that the character of the paper in its 
Norwegian form should be entirely popular, sundry sections or remarks 
contained in the original edition, were omitted, which might be assumed 
to have interest for specialists rather than for general readers. 
Examples of all the species of birds treated of, may be found set up 
in the Christiania University Zoological Museum, the greater number of 
them collected in the very regions, whose nature is here sketched from 
observations during seven summers’ wanderings in those parts of the 
country. 
