374 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



with greater or smaller hillocks of turf, with, deep 

 holes of black mud between them. This flat is 

 divided by many rivers, the banks of which are 

 fringed with birch and willow, while in the meadows 

 we find a far richer vegetation of Alpine flora than 

 we should have supposed. These rivers have their 

 rise from the fell lakes, of which there are many 

 of a tolerable size i.e., "jeris jaure" ("jaure" 

 is the Lap. term for a lake), and "naste jaure." In 

 most of these lakes we find fish, Crustacea, and the 

 larva of insects (probably of mosquitoes), so that 

 both the water-fowl and waders here find a rich 

 supply of food. 



In this, the wildest and barrenest tract of East 

 Finmark, the gyr-falcon, the snowy owl, the snow 

 bunting, the wheatear, the purple sandpiper, one 

 or other of the skuas, the godwits, gulls, cor- 

 morants, guillemots, razorbills, oyster-catchers, 

 Arctic terns, the ring dotterel, Temminck's stint, 

 and the rock pipit, breed ; while further inland 

 we find in the summer the fieldfare, redwing, 

 shore lark, merlin, greenshank, wood sandpiper, 

 dunlin, and some of the aucks. 



Further south we also meet with a flat, deso- 

 late tract, but not nearly so wild and barren as 

 this, for here we have lichens and grass, 

 plantations of birch and willow, not only along 

 the sides of the rivers, but even in the meadows, 



