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About 7 p.m. we got home, after some eighteen miles' 

 walking, and had a very satisfactory dinner and so 

 to bed. 



We heard this evening of another Buzzard's nest down 

 the valley, and Lars is to look after it to-morrow. 



June 28. 



Wednesday, the 28th of June when we had showers 

 in the afternoon was devoted to indoor work, egg-blow- 

 ing, letter-writing, carbolising young Fieldfares, and 

 giving Ole a lesson in skinning, at his own request, and 

 Alston worked at his sketch made yesterday. 



Ole brought in this morning a nest of five Ring Ouzels' 

 eggs, taken below the house in the stump of a birch-tree 

 in a rock. He fired at one of the birds. 



Two Wheatears' eggs from a nest brought in have 

 distinct but minute black dots at the larger end. 



June 29. 



Thursday, the 29th of June, was dull and warm. In 

 the morning a $ Black Duck Common Scoter, or ' Skjer 

 Auch ' was brought to us, which a man had shot last 

 night on Osevand, and which is doubtless the $ of the 

 first ? I shot and lost on the 16th, and of which we got 

 the nest and two eggs on the 19th. 



To-day Ole and I went over to the birch-woods on the 

 opposite side of the river above Maristuen in vain search 

 for Skov Ryper. Though we passed through a stretch of 

 capital ground, dwarf willow interspersed with juniper 

 and marshy ground, no signs of birds were seen. 



Lower down in the wood we came upon the rejecta 

 of Bear only a few days old, composed of vegetable 

 matter. Few small birds of any kind were seen. 



In the evening Ole heard of yet another Rough-legged 

 Buzzard's nest near Thune, which we hope to visit next 



