NORWAY 97 



took two nests (three and two eggs) of Broad-billed Sand- 

 piper in 1861, but he has never met with this species 

 since. Crane has occurred once near Slidre, but breeds 

 inland, and he has taken them ' mange gange.' The 

 Long-tailed Duck's eggs he has only taken once, and 

 he seemed much interested in our having shot a ? . 

 The Snowy Owl bred last year on Valdersfelde, and 

 the Hawk Owl has been shot and probably bred in 

 Ostre Slidre. Altogether we got a good deal of in- 

 formation, including lists of birds of Fillefjeld and 

 Valdersfjeld. 



By the way, Alston saw a Great Black Woodpecker 

 just before arriving at Dr. Printz's. 



At Keien we bade 'farvel' to Ole, and then posted 

 on to Fagernaes, where we stopped for the night, and 

 which we liked no better than on the last occasion. 



Four Englishmen are fishing at Fagernaes, but the 

 Trout are all smaller than Miosen Trout. One of them 

 recommends Tomlevold or Skoien. 



July 17. 



Monday, the 17th of July, a very warm but cloudy day, 

 we were up at six and had a plunge in the lake pretty 

 cold. We were to have started at seven and did get 

 away at eight. 



We don't like Fagernaes much. Too much pretension, 

 and the son of the landlord wears a * chimney-pot ' on 

 his head and a perpetual smirk on his countenance sug- 

 gestive of sour cream. He knows about two more words 

 of English besides what he knew when we last saw him, 

 and we had to fall back upon Norsk (he also). 



At Gravedalen we had an excellent Al lunch of cold 

 veal, bread, butter and ' Gede-ost,' and two ' flasker 61,' 

 all for 1 mark 20 sk. Of this the beer cost 1 mark, so 

 that we had as much as we could eat for 5d. each. 



VOL. i. 8 



