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birds being anything but shy, considerable numbers were killed 

 by the inhabitants. At the expiration of March they had all left. 



Tadorna vulpanser, Flem. 



Found breeding as far north as the Skjaergaard between 

 Troms0 and Hammerfest, its northern range being about 70''. A 

 young male, shot at Lyngen in May 1872, is preserved in the 

 Troms0 Museum. Occurs sporadically in Finmark up to the Rus- 

 sian frontier, and has been frequently observed in the Varanger- 

 fjord. 



Breeds most abundantly in the coastal region south of the 

 Trondhjemsfjord. On Jsederen, a locality in which it occurs in 

 great numbers, it has sometimes been found nesting in stone 

 fences, at a distance of several miles from the sea-shore. On 

 the 6th June 1872, Mr. Landmark discovered a nest here, built 

 beneath the flooring of a barn; several of the eggs were taken 

 successively, and the female continued laying till the number had 

 reached 19. Mr. Irgens, however, tells me that at Borgevser he 

 has often taken as many as 20 eggs from one nest, and once 28, 

 all laid by the same bird. 



In the stomachs of males, shot on Jaederen, I found: — in 

 one almost exclusively the fragments of plants (stems of (rramme^e), 

 and a quantity of gravel; in another seeds and vegetable matter, 

 fragments of a Carahus nitens, and the larvae of Eristalis. 



Mareca penelope, Lin. 



Common on the shores of freshwater lakes in Lofoten and Al- 

 ten, and found breeding up to the Russian frontier. 



In the stomach of an individual shot near Christiania, in Sep- 

 tember 1871, I found gravel and fragments of i?awMwcM?u5/?amww?a. 



Chaulelasmtis strepera, Lin. 



In November 1872, a male in normal winter dress was found 

 in the neighbourhood of Bergen, and presented to the museum by 

 Mr. Friele. 



This species is included for the first time here among the 

 Norwegian avifauna. 



