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wood sandpiper (T. glareola, Tern.), all bred commonly with us j 

 and I think this completes my list of the waders at least, if I have 

 omitted any, they must be looked upon as accidental and not regular 

 visitors. 



The crane (Grus cinerea, Bechst.) occasionally bred in the neigh- 

 bourhood, but this is not a favourite district, for the mosses are 

 hardly large enough here. I never heard of a bittern being killed 

 in the middle of Sweden - } and although a few specimens of both 

 the stork (Ciconia alia, Briss.), the black stork (C. nigra, Briss.), and 

 the heron (Ardea cinerea, Lath.) have been shot here, none of them 

 can be considered as indigenous to these districts. 



I once saw the common guillemot on the south of the lake close 

 to my boat while lake trout-fishing, and one specimen of the black 

 guillemot was once picked up on the banks of the Wenern in a 

 state of decomposition. It fell into the hands of a friend of mine, 

 a keen collector, who immediately added it to his list as new to the 

 fauna of the Wenern. I had my doubts about such a bird having 

 been ever brought up here by wings ; and with that characteristic 

 jealousy which prompts every collector to sift out all particulars 

 respecting a rare species which falls into any other hands but his 

 own, I felt it my duty to make inquiries as to how such a bird ever 

 could get up here. The consequence was, I discovered that the speci- 

 men in question had been brought up from the southern coast of 

 the Baltic in a schooner along with a lot of gulls and such like rub- 

 bish, as sea-stores, but having been kept too long, the cook cast it 

 overboard, and it was picked up on the beach by the peasant who 

 carried it in triumph to my friend. Oh, the jealousy of collectors ! 

 I do not consider myself particularly maliciously or evil-disposed 

 towards any man, but I cannot help owning that I felt much grati- 

 fication in undeceiving my friend respecting this black guillemot j 

 however, this circumstance, trifling as it is, might bear with it good 

 results, for there was certainly very good ground for his supposing 

 that the bird in question had by some means or other found its way 

 up to the Wenern while living j and it is not improbable that other 

 rare birds which are added to local faunas from specimens being 



