This paper was written for the Second International Ornithological 

 Congress, held in Budapest, in May, 1891, and a portion of it was read 

 during one of the meetings of the Congress. The Author wishes there- 

 fore to call attention to the fact that it is adapted to an audience whose 

 conceptions of the natural features of the country described could not be 

 supposed to be great. And in order that the character of the paper in its 

 Norwegian form should be entirely popular, sundry sections or remarks 

 contained in the original edition, were omitted, which might be assumed 

 to have interest for specialists rather than for general readers. 



Examples of all the species of birds treated of, may be found set up 

 in the Christiania University Zoological Museum, the greater number of 

 them collected in the very regions, whose nature is here sketched from 

 observations during seven summers' wanderings in those parts of the 

 country. 



