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Astur palumharius, Lin. 



Breeds sparingly in the neighbourhood of Troms0 and in the 

 valley of the Maalselv (a specimen bird was shot here 21st June 

 1872), and here and there in the wooded tracts of East and West 

 Finmark, but hardly farther north than Alten (70") ; in the latter 

 loca;lity it has been shown to breed. Wolley found a nest here 

 (constructed originally of Sciurus), containing three eggs, in the 

 top of a tall fir-tree, April 29th 1855. Some few individuals 

 would even appear to be resident in the extreme north of the 

 country, birds having been observed and killed in the winter months 

 at Troms0, and on the shores of the Varangerfjord. 



Astur nisus, Lin. 



Volasj0h0, on the Dovre, 27th July 1872, about 4000' a. 1. s. 



North of the Polar Circle, it has hitherto been observed only 

 in the interior of East Finmark, where Nordvi has repeatedly found 

 it breeding. The greater number would appear, like the foregoing, 

 to leave the country at the approach of winter; stragglers however ■ 

 are everywhere met with resident. 



Biiteo vulgaris, Bechst. 



The northern limit of the distribution of this species in Norway 

 has not yet been sufficiently defined. It would appear, however, to 

 occur north of the Trondhjemsfjord (in' the spring of 1872 the 

 Philosophical Society of Trondhjem procured a specimen from Selbo), 

 for in Sweden the species ranges considerably further north. 



In the stomach of a female shot near Christiania April 18th 

 1872, I found fragments of a Sorex vulgaris, two Arvicola 

 glareola, and an Arvicola agrestis. From the stomach of an other 

 individual killed that summer, was taken a Coluber natrix. 

 Archihuteo lag opus, Briinn. 



Common on Troms0en and throughout the whole of Finmark, 

 more especially on the plateaus of the fells. In June 1872, I saw. 

 several individuals, shot in the valley of the Maalselv, for which 

 rewards were demanded on the supposition of their being the goshawk. 



Both in 1871 and 1872 abundant on the Dovre, where they 

 were observed at a considerable altitude. 



