THE ZOOLOGIST 
FOR 1864. 
Natural-History Notes from Norway. By Grorce Norman, Esq. 
In the month of June last, in company with my friend Mr. N. F. 
Dobrée, I visited the Hardanger district of Norway, and during this 
and two previous visits to Norway I made a few notes on various 
subjects connected with Natural History. These notes I venture 
to send, thinking some of them may interest the readers of the 
‘ Zoologist.’ 
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). It was on our road to the Véring Foss, 
on the 20th of June, that the first fieldfares’ nests were seen. My 
friend was very anxious to obtain eggs of this bird, and, although not 
now an egg-collector myself, I must confess my early bird-nesting 
propensities were strongly excited. With a walking-stick gun we had 
with us, I shot a young, fully-fledged bird, quite strong on the wing, 
but did not find eggs in any of the nests. Afterwards, in the exten- 
sive pine forests near Vossevangen, carpeted with Linnea borealis, 
Trientalis europea, Maianthemum bifolium and Pyrola uniflora, 
we found one nest with five eggs strongly incubated: this was 
perhaps ten feet from the ground, on the branch of a Scotch pine. 
The nest resembled that of the missel thrush, and the eggs those of 
the blackbird, only being uniformly larger. Some days afterwards, in 
driving towards Gudvangen, and further northward towards the Sogn 
Fjord, we met with whole colonies of these birds. The nests were 
situated at various distances from the ground, say from two to fifteen 
or twenty feet, and were found in pine, spruce and junipers. The 
greatest number of nests, however, were in the alder trees growing 
along the roadside, and in the dried-up branches of streams. Fre- 
quently we took twenty eggs or more in a day, selecting those which 
had the greatest variety in colour and marking. Some curious varieties 
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