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Coast, in particular Nordland, will, however, be found subjoined, 

 and I have likewise recorded such of the latest ornithological 

 discoveries in the country as I held to be of a special interest. 



As regards Finmark, the eastern portion of that Stift, or „0st- 

 finmarken" has been specially favoured," in having been made the 

 subject of comparatively accurate researches, extending over a 

 period of many years, — as witness the labours of Schrader, ' Som- 

 merfelt,^ Nordvi. Bearing this in mind, I passed the whole of 

 last summer in West Finmark and Troms0 Amt, ^ provinces com- 

 paratively little known to ornithologists. The localities visited were 

 chiefly the following: — In Finmarken Amt the tracts bordering on 

 the Porsanger Fjord, the country round the North Cape, and the valley 

 of Alten; in Troms0 Amt, the island of Tromso, and the valley 

 of the Maalselv. Store Tams0, an island in the Porsanger 

 Fjord, about 1 D mile in extent, attracted my attention in a special 

 degree: here I found a very considerable number of the Arctic 

 Grallae and Natatores, for instance Tn'nga juinufa, and Branta 

 leucopsis. As in the valley of the Maalselv and in Alten, I 

 observed not a few species of the central European fauna, which, 

 owing to the influence of the Gulf Stream on the climate, are 

 enabled to range to a latitude in Norway far exceeding their limits 

 in the eastern interior portions of the European Continent: so also 

 at Gjaesvaer, a bird preserve and fishing locality west of the North 

 Cape, I found several of the more easterly species beyond their 

 extreme western range, as hitherto known. 



The localities which I explored in the summer of 1871, were 

 chiefly the tracts bordering on the Foldenfjord, and the southern 

 j)ortions of Helgeland. 



The directors of the Bergen Museum kindly placed at my 

 disposal the late Pastor Heltzen's MS. on the fauna and flora 

 of Helgeland, belonging to that institution. In this voluminous 

 work, which is brought down to the year 1842, all the species 



' Journ. f. Ornith 18.53, p. 240. 



^ Ofv. Kgl. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1861, P- 67. 



^ The most northern part of this „Amt" is in latitude 70" 30'. 



