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made on journeys through the country, and can therefore not be 

 complete. The author of this, who as pastor of Naesseby, on the 

 Varan ger Fjord, during nine years, has had a fair opportunity of gaining 

 information both in Naesseby parish district, to which Pohnak and 

 Tana belong, and also on journeys in East Finuiark, considers himself 

 on these grounds capable of giving a more complete list, the more so, 

 as he has received much interesting information from Mr. Nardvi, a 

 merchant at Martensnses, who takes great interest in the study of 

 Natural History, and from the Englishman, Mr. John Wolley. 



In this list, therefore, no bird will be included with a number, unless 

 it has most certainly occurred. The list may probably at some future 

 time be increased by some few waders and song birds, as some 

 portions of East Finmark, viz., South Varanger and the upper portion 

 of the Tana River, have been but little explored, and Karasjok is not 

 included in East Finmark, which only consists of what lays to the 

 eastward of Svaerholt. Possibly various southern and eastern birds 

 may occur in South Varanger, viz. Cory thus enucleator, Emberiza 

 rustica and pusilla, Anas fuligula, and possibly on the Tana River some 

 of the rarer birds found at Muoniouiska, viz. Tringa platyrhyncha, 

 &c. 



Before commencing the list, I may be permitted to give a slight 

 sketch of the nature of the country and the climate. 



East Finmark's shores are washed by the North Arctic Ocean, which 

 penetrates deep into the country in many fjords, of which the largest 

 are the Laxe Fjord and Tana Fjord from the north, and Varanger 

 Fjord from the east. The northern portion of East Finmark is actually 

 two peninsulas, the one north of Hops and Eids Fjords, the most 

 northern point of which is Nordkyn, the other Varangernaesset 

 (Varanger peninsula), bounded by Tana Fjord, Tana River and 

 Varanger Fjord ; on the eastern point of which Vardo lays. These 

 peninsulas, and a portion of the mainland adjoining Hops and Eids 

 Fjords, consist of rather high, flat fells, with higher portions in places 

 and having large tracts covered with rubble and stones, without 

 the slightest sign of vegetation — not even lichens — still one finds 

 here on the masses of snow that remain almost all through the summer 

 the so called " rode sue " (red snow). 



On these fell-plains are found large masses, partly flat and even, 

 partly filled with larger aud smaller tussocks (Tuei) of peat, generally 

 with black mud between. The fell-plaius are intersected by many 

 rivers, along the banks of which we find low down birch and juniper 



