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Food partly vegetable. In the stomach of a male, shot on the 

 shore of the Foldenfjord, June 25tii 1871, I found only Colcop- 

 fcra (principally Aphodii) and their larvEe, and Gammaridce ; but in 

 the stomachs of individuals shot near Christiania, in the spring of 

 the same year, I also found seeds of divers plants growing on 

 the shore. 



In June 1865, I shot amongst the typical A. obscurus a breed- 

 ing individual on the Hval0er (near Bohuslehn). which differed ma- 

 ,terial from the other. The belly, deeply tinged with greyish-yellow, 

 being almost destitute of spots, and the back a decided grey with 

 hardly a trace of green, this individual certainly belonged to the 

 form aquatkus, Bechst. (spinoletta, Lin.). I am not aware, that this 

 form has been found elsewhere on the coast. In this example, the 

 wing measures 86 mm, tail 59, and tarsus 23 mm. 

 AntJius pratensis^ Bechst. 



Abundant on the coast and in the interior up to the Russian 

 frontier; it never breeds as a rule in the southern lowlands. 



In the birch region of the Dovre, from 6th to 14th June (1870, 

 71,72), almost all the nests contained eggs perfecty fresh; but on 

 the sea-coast, even in the extreme north of the country, the broods 

 would appear to be somewhat earlier; in Lofoten, for instance, 

 nestlings were found 14th June 1872. The disparity is still more 

 striking on the most southern of the flat holms and islands along 

 the coast; on the Hvaloer (59*^), for instance, the young birds were 

 fully fledged June 2nd 1865.' 



Anthus cervinus, Pall. 



In Norway, this species is probably most widely distributed in 

 East Finmark, being commoner there in certain localities, accor- 

 ding to divers naturalists, even t\mn A pratensis. In West Finmark, 

 possibly, it is less abundant, but would not appear to be wanting 

 anywhere. On the Porsangerfjord, I found it at Kistrand, also on 

 Mager0en (North Cape), and at Troms0. South of the Polar Circle, 

 its occurrence has not yet been established with certainty, though 

 it has been supposed to have occurred at Trondhjem; nor is it 



') Vide „Nyt Mag. f. Naturv." "Vol. 15, p. 23. 



