Besides the Kittiwake, there breed on Svaerholtklubben only a 

 few stray Razorbills and Guillemots (Alca torda and Lomvia troile], 

 some Tysties ( Una grylle), and the two kinds of Cormorant (Phala- 

 crocorax caybo and Ph. gyaculus], but all these together are quite lost 

 sight of among the countless gulls. 



High over these swarms of birds there commonly soar in 

 majestic calm, a pair of Sea-eagles (Haliaetus albicilla}, which have 

 placed their inaccessible nest up under the summit of the moun- 

 tain. But the constant sight of the mighty pirate, who by 

 merely making a swing with his wings can at any time possess 

 himself of one of the young Kittiwakes from the open nests, has 

 accustomed the denizens of the cliff to the danger, and they take 

 little notice of him. Should, on the contrary, a Gyr-falcon (Hievo- 

 falco gyvfalco) on its piratical expedition come too near the colony, 

 the effect is quite different ; the exasperation of the inhabitants 

 is aroused, and as it is not a member of the community, it is 

 pursued with loud screams, so long as it remains in sight. 



Before we take leave of the bird-rocks and their residents, 

 we will record an event of historic interest, which is connected 

 with one of the most easterly of the bird-rocks of Finmarken, 

 namely, Homo by Vardo. In the year 1848, there was shot here 

 by a man still living, Herr L. Brodtkorb, a bird, which though 

 it was not preserved for posterity, was yet so fully described 

 by the gunner as to be immediately recognized by naturalists, 

 and the remembrance of it also has been so faithfully preserved, 

 that any mistake is hardly conceivable. Then, indeed, in all 

 probability, was shot the last existing example of that remarkable 

 bird, the Garefowl, or Great Auk (Alca impennis). As the author 

 has already elsewhere* referred more fully to this occurrence, 

 and as the Garefowl never seems to have been a constant inhabi- 

 tant of the coast of Norway, we will not here detain ourselves 

 longer with its history. 



We must briefly mention what species of birds may be con- 

 sidered as the most characteristic in the belt of islands which 

 gird the coast of Norway. 



* Mitth. d. Ornith. Vereines in Wien, 1884. 



