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41 + 13 mm, is preserved in the University Museum; the others were 

 all males in winter plumage. I once found a young male not fully 

 coloured in the game market of Christiania Oct. 3i'i 1870. 



The Rakkelhane would appear to consort in preference with black 

 game, and most individuals of which any particulars are known, 

 have been killed among birds of that species. It has been record- 

 ed of one individual (Odalen in April 1871), that it was shot in 

 its „Spil", in a breeding-haunt of capercaillie. 

 B n a s a het u I i n a, Scop. 



Found sparingly in the northern localities of Trondhjem Stift, 

 and occurs as a rare bird in Namdalen (65'^). According to Heltzen, 

 it has been observed even in some parishes of Helgeland, but 

 Mr. Berbom did not meet with it at Salten (within the Polar Circle). 



According to Mr. Pedersen, a taxidermist at Troms0, ' this species 

 occurs in the valley of the Maalselv. When visiting these parts, 

 I made enquiry of the inhabitants, but they did not appear to know 

 the bird; indeed the locality must be without the actual limits of 

 its distribution. Heuglin too, relying on the same source, records 

 (no doubt erroneously) the occurrence of this species in East 

 Finmark. 



Lag op us alb us, Gmel. 



Probably most 'abundant on certain of the tiat islands, distin- 

 guished by a vigorous birch growth, lying to the north of the 

 Polar Circle, especially in Lofoten and along the coast ofNordland 

 and Troms0 Amts. The islands best known in this respect are 

 those of Hassel0, in Lofoten, and Karlso, north of Troms0, a very 

 considerable number of this species being annually killed there, 

 and apparently without effect on their increase. 



On the 14fh June the males were to be seen on the .,Spil" 

 in all directions among the bushes on Hasselo. On Tromsoen 

 this bird may be said to be almost domesticated; it nests in the 

 gardens of the inhabitants and in the grounds of the neighbouring 

 villas, no wise disturbed by the daily avocations going on around. 



' Peicrnmnii ,,Geu^i;i|iliisflii.' Mittluilunj^iii" \'cil. 17, p. 57; ..Journal liir (Jiiii- 

 tlioiogic" 187 1, Vol 19, p 107. 



