158 R. Collett. 



May. Thus in Skjeberg (i3''* May), at another spot in 

 Smaalenene (iS^'^May), at Iddefjord (20^^ May), also near 

 Frederikshald (end of May) ; subsequently at Ingedal 

 (S""*^ June), as well as at Lillesand (8'^ June). 



In the interior parts also most of the birds were met 

 with shortly after their arrival in the latter half of May. 

 They almost always appeared singly or but a few to- 

 gether. Here they were found at Gardermoen in Trögstad, 

 a Sandy military exercising ground (16^'' May), in Grue 

 beyond Kongsvinger (17^*^ May), in Siljord, Thelemarken 

 (22"^^ May), in Gudbrandsdalen (24*^ May); and finally 

 in the end of May a small flock advanced as far as the Upper 

 part of Österdal, and two specimens were shot out of a 

 small covey in Tolgen (south of Röros), and one at Reitan 

 in Aalen between Röros and Trondhjem; the mountain pass 

 which they had to cross here, is 664'" above the level of 

 the sea. Only from one place in these districts has it been 

 reported that a flock was observed for some days together; 

 this was at Stange on the Hedemarken plateau, where a 

 covey of 8 birds arrived in the end of May, and was ob- 

 served to be still there on the 9^'^ of June. 



Finally, individuals or flocks were seen on the western 

 coast (Bergens Stift), which forms the immediate continuation 

 of Jäderen , although it almost in no part has the same 

 characteristics. According to Dr. Grieg, the Bergen Museum 

 received on the 22"'' May one specimen from Hardanger, 

 and shortly afterwards another was shot on Stordöen. On the 

 3'"^ of June small flocks appeared near Bergen, and about 

 the same time some were observed at Valestrand, just to 

 the north of Bergen. 



Finally may be mentioned the occasions on which they 

 appeared late in the autumn, after they had been entirely 

 lost sight of since the beginning of July. 



On the 25''* of October three specimens were shot at 

 Närbö, Jäderen, and sold in Stavanger (as food). On the 

 ,ytii November a single male was shot at Kvalben in the 

 same district, and forwarded to the University Museum in 

 Christiania. A female was killed at ßörsesjö near Skien 



