76 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



week and get either eggs or young. He heard also that 

 no less than four Bears have been seen there lately. 



Two travellers of the name of Salvesen passed Maristuen 

 this morning. Curiously enough, they live at Polmont, 

 and have shot often along the coast at Grangemouth, 

 and know it well. The Danish Consul at Leith is their 

 father. 



June 30. 



On Friday, the 30th of June a warm day we occupied 

 ourselves in packing our traps and three large boxes of 

 specimens, into one of which we also put a couple of 

 ' Gede-ost,' or goat-milk cheeses, and a pile of Fladbrod. 

 These boxes Ole will manage to forward to Loerdalsoren, 

 to be shipped thence to Bergen. 



Alston also made out a list of the birds of the Fille- 

 fjeld, with the local Norsk names, and put crosses 

 opposite those we wish Ole to collect for us another 

 season. 



About eight o'clock in the evening in came old Lars 

 Eraker, looking rather tired and hot. A conversation 

 ensued between him and Ole, and we heard ' fire eig,' and 

 shortly after old Lars began fumbling and diving his 

 hands into every corner of his old knapsack. He pro- 

 duced three Eough-legged Buzzard's eggs, and then 

 seemed at a loss. At last he pulled out a whole sack, 

 and from its furthest and deepest depths produced the 

 fourth egg. 



Alston noted that his actions reminded him for all the 

 world of the wizard of the north and his wonderful bag 

 of eggs. 



These four eggs are very handsome, and were taken 

 yesterday from a nest in a rock on the Hemsedal Fjeld. 

 Lars said the rock was bad, and that the nest was * meget 

 stort.' The eggs were all fertile, being pretty hard set. 



This, with the Bluethroat's nest, which we plan to get 



