The Zoologist — June, 1867. 761 



List of Birds noticed in East Finmark, with a few short Remarks 

 respecting some of them. By Ch. Sommerfeldt, Parish Priest of 

 Ntesseby. Translated and communicated by H. E. Dresser, Esq. 



(Concluded from Zool. S. S. 700.) 



Notes. 



1. Aquila fulva. — Not common, for though I have had means of 

 seeing many eagle-skins I have never seen but one of this bird. The 

 bird in question was caught in a steel trap at West Tana. In 1858, 

 on the 4th of May, two eggs were brought to me from Lerpollen on 

 the Tana. The ground colour was dirty whi<e, with a pale violet-gray 

 tinge, the one without brown spots, the other covered with larger and 

 lesser brown spots, chiefly at the pointed end. On the 25th of April, 

 1859, one egg was taken from the same nest: this one was without 

 brown spots, and less in size. The largest was 68 mm. in length, 55 

 mm. in diameter; the least 64 mm. in length, 50 mm. in diameter. 



2. Pandion halueetus. — Breeds at Karasjok, Alten and Enare, 

 possibly also in the pine forests on the South Varanger and the Tana 

 River, where it is well known both to the river Lapps and the fell 

 Lapps. In the summer of 1855 T saw it at Polmak. 



2 b. Buleo lagopus. — Is included as a resident, as Nordvi states that 

 he has seen it during the winter at Morten snses, and skins have been 

 brought to the " Fogde " at Karlebotten Fair in December, and at Pol- 

 maks Assizes (Thing) in February, with a statement that the birds had 

 been caught in ptarmigan-snares. In 1853 I first observed them com- 

 monly in April at Nyborg. The snow covered the ground completely, 

 but many lemmings were lo be seen along the fjord. 



3. Falco gyrfalco. — The commonest of the falcons occurring here. 

 It nests at several places, as, for instance, at the Polmak Lake, on a 

 mountain near Leibenjarg, at Polmak, at Meskelf and Beralvakke in 

 Naesseby, at Ekkeio near Vatso. Its eggs, four in number, light brown, 

 marked with small dark brown spots, particularly towards the larger 

 end, get lighter as incubation proceeds, so that shortly before they are 

 hatched they are almost clay-yellow without spots. They are hatched 

 about the 20th of May. In length they are 55 mm., in diameter 41 

 mm. It is not unusual for this bird to be, in the winter, found hanging 

 in the plarmigan-snares, as is also the case with F. palumbarius and 

 F. lagopus. 



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