CHAPTER X. 



A CHAPTER ON THE ORNITHOLOGY AROUND VARDOL, 



IN EAST FINLAND, LYING CONTIGUOUS TO 



THE NORTH CAPE. 



FROM Quickiock to the North. Cape, as the crow 

 flies, will be about four degrees, or 240 English 

 miles ; and the wild, barren tracts lying on either 

 side of the great Tornea river, which enters the 

 Bothnia at Tornea, or the great Tana river, which 

 flows into the Polar Ocean at Tana fjord, a little 

 to the east of the North Cape, are probably richer 

 in the rare ducks and waders during the summer 

 than any other portion of the European continent. 

 I have already noticed all the birds which I 

 met with in the Quickiock district, and a list of 

 the birds which are found in the tracts lying 

 between this place and the North Cape will render 

 my notes on the ornithology of Lapland complete 

 and very useful to the naturalist who studies that 



