309 123 



Idngere Tid sedan hafva hlifvit sJcjtden i Trakten ocli var hand un- 

 der hendmningen den store 0mmer.^^ 



The individual here referred to not having been preserved, 

 or seen in the flesh by Lilljeborg, this record is hardly sufficiently 

 authenticated. 



5. In the year 1838, Rasch, in his ,,Fortegnelse og Bemcerhnin- 

 ger over de i Norge forekommende Fugle'"' ^ writes as follows : — Gjen- 

 nem Stud. med. Scliubeler er jeg hleven underretfet am, at den 

 (Alca impennis) i Vinter (1838) er hleven drceht i Ncerheden af 

 Frederiksstad.''^ 



On my applying to Mr. Schlibeler, now Professor of Botany at 

 the University of Christiania, for further information on the sub- 

 ject, he frankly admitted that the individual in question, which 

 was not preserved, and which he did not sec, could hardly have 

 been examined with sufficient care. 



6. In the year 1858, Nilsson, in his Skandinavisk Fauna, ^ 

 produces a letter from Nordvi, dated Mortensnses, in East Finmark, 

 May 11th 1856, containing a statement to the effect that about the 

 year 1848, in the beginning of April, an individual was most likely 

 shot (ganske vist er skudt) at Vard0, but not preserved. This 

 however, like the rest, is hearsay evidence, Nordvi not having 

 examined the individual himself. 



' Nyt Mag. f. Naturv. 1 B. p. 386, 

 ^ Foglarne, A^i Ed. Vol. 2, p. 571. 



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