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songster. I made my first acquaintance with it on the island of 
Skuoe, on the 23rd May: there they are to be seen about the 
village in considerable numbers, running in and out of the chinks 
between the stone-built cottages like mice; then alighting on the grass 
roofs, and with outspread wing and swelling throat pouring forth a 
stream of melody far exceeding that of T. parvulus. As soon as it 
was known that [ wanted “ Mousabrouir” nests and eggs, a brisk 
search commenced: boys, girls, and women, aiding in it. I was 
taken from outhouse to outhouse to look at nests; all were exactly 
alike: outwardly a firm structure of hay; next a lining of moss; 
then a snug bed of down and sea-fow] feathers. All the nests I saw 
were placed in the same position, namely, between the blocks of 
stone of which the outhouses are built, the entrance to the nest 
invariably facing inwards. I examined seven or eight nests in this 
village: one only had eggs; the rest had young two or three days 
old. On the island of Great Dimon I found the wren numerous, 
and discovered its nest in a cave close to the landing-place, far 
away from the habitations of men. At Porkerii, on the 30th May, 
1872, I noticed a brood of five following their parents in and out 
of the boat-houses. In the northern islands it is abundant: in 
Swinoe, on the 7th June, I saw a brood following their parents, 
who collected them together with a chirp, and then fed them with 
insects that they had picked out of the gutter. The same day I 
put my hand into a nest and drew an old one out of it: it flew a 
few feet from me, perched on the guuwale of a boat, and broke out 
into a merry song. Before I left the boat-house the wren returned 
to its nest. When J staid in the pastor’s house, at Videroe, I was 
awakened in the morning by the song of this bird close to the 
open window, so loud and so melodious that no one could help 
noticing the difference between its note and the more feeble efforts 
of our common wren. 
47. Cuculus canorus, Linn. Cuckoo.—Herr Miiller records 
one from the island of Naalsoe, July, 1861; a second in July, 
1862; and an old male was shot, near Kollefiord, on the 16th 
June, 1864. 
48. Hirundo rustica, Linn. Swallow. Native name, Sveala.— 
Appears in Feroe in May, sometimes in considerable numbers, 
but has never been known to breed there. I saw a pair at 
Qualboe, island of Suderoe, on the 28th May, 1872; I shot one of 
them, which proved to be a female. I saw a single bird flying 
over a small lake in Osteroe, on the 11th June. 
