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lower down. Wolves, however, were common about this place, and 
the birch-woods were full of their tracks. One night we had a 
great chase after a big fellow that had approached the steadings, 
toiled after him with the rifle about two miles up a hill-side, 
through knee-deep snow, but only had our labour for our pains, 
for he wouldn’t let us come within shot. A little boy had had one 
threatening him the day before, on the road a mile or so away 
from the station, and had much ado to keep it off by shouting and 
throwing stones; and a friend, whom we met here accidentally, 
came suddenly on another, snarling and snapping in the middle of 
a lonely wood. Not being armed with any more trenchant weapon 
than a walking-stick, he politely retired backwards and stepped 
into a deep bog, from which he had considerable difficulty in 
extricating himself. Red Foxes were seen several times by the 
side of the road. 
We had, unfortunately, to leave for home on the 16th of June, 
and were thus unable to wait for the nesting of many birds, whose 
eggs we could assuredly have procured but for want of time. 
Having given ourselves the least possible margin to catch the 
steamer at Christiania, we had to carriole nearly night and day to 
Lillehammer, where we took the boat down the Mjésen lake to 
Eidsvold, the railway terminus. Naturally, under conditions of 
this sort, there was very little recourse to the note-book. 
The following are the notes we made on all the species of birds 
met with during our tour :— 
Golden Eagle. Aguila chrysaétus.—At Grut, in Meldal, we 
procured an unblown egg of this species, taken the year before 
from an eyrie in the neighbouring mountains, at which time both 
birds had been shot for the sake of the half-dollar which is paid by 
the Government for the destruction of all the larger birds of prey. 
The man who killed them paid a visit to the place before our 
departure, but there were no fresh tenants. This he did in the 
early morning, before anybody was up; we suppose because he 
was afraid we might cause him to be forestalled in the event of a 
future occupancy; we could not be vexed with him as he was 
hardly compos mente. 
Merlin. Falco esalon—While I was slung over the cliff after 
the Rough-legged Buzzard on the Dovre, June 13th, a male Merlin 
flew past me, the only one observed. 
Kestrel. Falco tinnunculus.—A nest was taken from a wood 
