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of blood from mosquito-bites, and the wearing out of the soles 
of a remarkably good pair of stockings. Woollen stockings, by- 
the-bye, are capital things for rock-climbing, don’t slip, and have 
a good grip; they are only inferior to the skin slippers the Faroe 
men wear. We shot both old birds, and tried to keep the young 
alive, but they severally succumbed to carriole- and steamboat- 
travelling, and the last died just in sight of England. 
Eagle Owl. Bubo ignavus.—We never observed this ourselves, 
but at Grut procured two fine skins, the birds having been shot 
there the year before. 
Snowy Owl. Nyctea scandiaca.—It was the 17th of May when 
we arrived at Grut, and during the evening Wrigley, amusing 
himself by climbing to all the Magpie’s nests in the neighbouring 
trees, came down from one with two large white eggs in his hands, 
which Lysne, an experienced man on this species, pronounced 
Snowy Owls, He went into the village to seek for information 
on the subject, and came back before long with a grin from ear to 
ear: he had found the man who had put them there, the fellow 
having come across them, veritable “ Snee-uggla,” when crossing 
the mountains the previous year. He had kept them twelve months, 
and then, thinking he would like to educate some young Owls, put 
them in the Magpie’s nest to be hatched. A skin, too, that we 
got from a farmer here, when overhauled at home, was found to be 
stuffed with soil, and so quite rotten. One was heard, at night, 
when we were at Drivstuen, and here was seen the only live 
Lemming we came across; their skeletons were in scores. 
Pied Flycatcher. Muscicapa atricapilla. — Seen in numbers 
at Nervig, May 16th, and eggs were given us by Herr Nissen of 
this place (who showed us much kindness in many ways), taken in 
Orkedal. None were observed after we had got on the higher 
ground. 
Fieldfare. Turdus pilaris.—These were very few in number on 
our arrival at Nervig, but the migratory bands were continually 
arriving, and we met them in increasing flocks by the side of the 
road as we drove into the interior. One spent the evening of 
May 10th on the steamer, when two days out from Hull. Our 
first colony of breeding Fieldfares was met with in a wood near 
Dombaas on June 4th, but a fortnight after this there were many 
pairs only building. All the wood close to Fokstuen is birch 
only, and here they bred in large numbers; but five or six miles 
