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strange to say) in one of the wooden pipes which conveys the 

 water into a small corn-mill hy the roadside which leads to Sels 

 Vand. At Lillehammer it was pretty plentiful, on the Mesna, at 

 least, where I once saw five the same day. 



Wheatear, Saxicola cenanthe (L.) — Common at high and low 

 altitudes alike, wherever there are rocks or stony places ; nests in 

 old walls or ruined cottages, under stones, or even in holes in the 

 ground. 



Whinchat, Pratincola rubetra (L.) — Dresser (' Birds of 

 Europe,' vol. ii., p. 250) does not give one the idea that this bird 

 is at all abundant in Norway, and up to my leaving Lillehammer 

 I did not find it so ; but as I went up the Grudbrandsdal I found it 

 getting more and more plentiful, till, at Laurgaard, it was one of 

 the commonest of all birds in the low grounds ; it frequented the 

 willows on the edges of the marshes, and any one could have shot 

 thirty in a day. On the Dovre Fjeld it seemed rare, being 

 apparently a lowland bird in Norway ; but in the Foldal, below 

 Dalen, it seemed fully as plentiful as at Laurgaard. 



Kedstart, Ruticilla phocnic urns (L.) — Very plentiful both at 

 high and low altitudes. Nests in Norway, by preference in an old 

 Woodpecker's or Tit's hole in a tree. It certainly has the power, 

 in spite of its slender bill, of enlarging the hole to suit its 

 requirements, as I found a nest at Fokstuen with one egg, of 

 which the parents kept close to me ; the fresh chips at the foot 

 of the tree (it was a birch) were, many of them, lying in such 

 positions on leaves, &c, as rain would have at once removed 

 them from, which of course gave me approximately the date of 

 their deposition. It is possible that the nest might have been 

 commenced by a Woodpecker and deserted, but the shape of the 

 hole was quite different to what a Woodpecker would have made, 

 being almost circular, and only about seven or eight inches deep, 

 while the nest which was placed in it was nearly six inches 

 in external diameter. 



Bed-spotted Bluethroat, Cyanccula suecica (L.) — Very 

 plentiful on the Dovre Fjeld. At Fokstuen I might have shot 

 twenty males any clay, but the females were great skulkers, and 

 seldom showed themselves. The note of this bird is remarkably 

 varied, but may be at once recognised by the metallic " ting ting" 

 with which it usually commences its warble, which is just like a 

 couple of strokes on a small high-toned triangle. It also has a 



