CHAPTER XV. 



THE SCANDINAVIAN ORNITHOLOGY THE EAGLES AND THE OSPKEY. 



FOR the information of the naturalist and the sportsman, I 

 subjoin an account as well of the birds found in the Ronnum 

 country and the adjacent sea-coast, together with the Skar- 

 gard, as of all others included by northern naturalists in the 

 Fauna of Sweden and Norway. The reader is therefore, in 

 point of fact, presented with a complete, though necessarily 

 concise, summary of the Scandinavian Ornithology. He 

 will also find some mention made of that of Denmark. 



For the government of the lovers of this branch of natural 

 history, it may be proper to mention, that in the preparation 

 of this matter, the following works (the only ones indeed 

 more particularly treating of the Scandinavian Ornithology) 

 have been consulted by me namely, Pontoppidan's " Natural 

 History of Norway," (Engl. Transl. London, 1755); Lin- 

 naeus' "Fauna Suecica," 2 d edition, 1761 ; Retzius' "Fauna 

 Suecica," 1800; Nilsson's " Scandinavisk Fauna, Foglarna," 



