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on ihe 29''' of November, thus also in the south eastern 

 coastal district, and was subsequently given to the University 

 Museum. None of these latter specimens were young birds, 

 but all fully developed old ones. A specimen was killed by 

 the telegraph wire at Kvalben, Jaderen , in the beginning 

 of December. The covey at Narbö (in the same district), 

 of which 3 specimens were shot the 25^"^ October, was 

 observed at the same place to the end of the year; and 

 still on the 3'"'^ January 1889, a solitary specimen was seen, 

 the last which to my knowledge has been observed in Norway. 



The first birds forwarded to the University Museum, 

 a male and a female, v\'ere shot, as previously mentioned, 

 the 12*'^ of May. The testes in the first were somewhat 

 swoUen, and the ovary of the female contained eggs about 

 the size of those of a Regulus. 



The stomachs of these specimens were crammed, and 

 contained seeds of plants, growing on the coast, of which 

 could be distinguished small Papilionaceae (Vicia?), as well 

 as some Alsinaceae (Spergula?), together wilh a considerable 

 amount of gravel. In the specimens subsequently shot in 

 May, I discovered besides gravel and seed, in some of them 

 only grains of barley. In one of the birds, shot during the 

 autumn in Jaderen on the 17"^ November, I found the 

 stomach entirely filled with rye. 



1 add the measurements of some of the specimens, which 

 I was enabled to examine in the flesh. 



Locality 



Date 



(J <o 



%, 



o " 



Male 

 Male 

 Male 

 Male 

 Female 

 Female 



Lister 

 Lister 

 Smaalenene 

 Jaderen 

 Lister 

 Lisler 



i6tli May 

 22 nd May 

 i5th May 

 lyth Nov. 

 i2th May 

 i6t'> May 



Christiania, April 1890. 



410 

 403 

 400 

 407 

 372 

 350 



106 

 tio 

 lo8 



HO 



io5 

 100 



