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(=Pomatorhine) Skua (Stercorarius pomatorhinus), and the Fulmar 

 Petrel (Fulmarus glacialis) ; and of the auk family, the Spitzbergen 

 Guillemot (Lomvia bruennichi), and the Little Auk (Merguhis). 



All these species, whose breeding haunts lie further east or 

 further north than the confines of Norway, visit our coast more 

 or less commonly, chiefly in the winter, but a few of them also in 

 summer. It is indeed a truly remarkable trait in these species 

 belonging to the far north (especially the waders), which as breed- 

 ing birds belong to the most northerly coast-lines of Europe, or 

 even still more northerly regions, that many individuals often spend 

 the summer on the most southerly coasts of Norway or still further 

 to the south. All these consist of one- or two-year-old indi- 

 viduals, who are waiting until they attain to breeding age. 

 Thus, there " summer" annually on the southern extremity of 

 Norway (Listerland and Jaederen) flocks or stray individuals 

 of Tringa canntns and Tr. subarquata, of the Sanderling (Calidris), 

 and of the Grey Plover (Squatarola helvetica), and also of the 

 Great Northern Diver (Colymbus glacialis), and others ; whilst 

 the fully adult individuals of these species are hatching out 

 their young in the extreme north ; also of Tringa minuta, Tr. 

 temmincki, of the rusty -red Bar-tailed God wit (Limosa lapponica), 

 and of the Spotted Redshank (Totanus fuscus), which each as 

 breeding birds with us, belong only to Finmarken, while the 

 young birds are to be met with in the south, all through the 

 summer. It is as if the desire to revisit the regions in which 

 they first saw the light, does not awake in earnest before they 

 themselves breed. 



Inside of T island lie a multitude of large and small holms 



or islands, some low, others precipitous and mountainous, and as 

 a rule only inhabited by a pair of miserable sheep which are 

 lodged here in the short summer time. But on most of these 

 desolate-looking holms it is worth while for the ornitho- 

 logist to go ashore. If the ground is heather-covered and 

 swampy, there will never be lacking some nesting pairs of 

 different species of Tringa ; and on the drier places, where the 



