54 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



examples occurred occasionally, so I had the pleasure of pre- 

 senting rny specimen to Professor Collett for the new series of 

 Norwegian-killed hirds he is making for the University Museum — 

 and a splendid series it is, which every ornithologist who sees 

 must admire. I am doubtful whether to attribute a bird I saw 

 at Laurgaard, beating the marshes by the river, to this species or 

 to C. aruginosus. A Harrier it certainly was, and I am inclined 

 to think of the latter species, as its colour seemed to be of 

 too dark a red-brown for any other species. I am only inclined 

 to hesitate by the extreme rarity of the Marsh Harrier in 

 Norway. 



Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris (Leach). — I saw one flying over the 

 town at Lillehammer ; my attention was called to it by the great 

 commotion made by White Wagtails and Swallows as soon as 

 they saw it. 



Rough-legged Buzzard, Archlbutco lagopus (Grn.) — I am 

 inclined to attribute to this species a bird I several times saw 

 near Laurgaard, but I was never near enough to be certain. I 

 paid some attention to what I think must have been the cliff 

 between Fokstuen and Hjerkinn, where Mr. Mitchell took the 

 nest of this bird (' Zoologist,' 1877), but could not see that it was 

 tenanted. 



Sparrowiiawk, Accipiter nisus (L.)— Not uncommon. Noticed 

 at Lillehammer, Laurgaard, and on the Dovre. 



Mkrlin, Falco cesalon (Tunst.) — A pair near Hjerkinn seemed 

 by their conduct to have a nest near at hand. 



Kestrel, F. tinniniculus (L.) — Not uncommon ; I saw more 

 near Laurgaard, I think, than anywhere else. 



Pink-footed Goose, Anscr brachyrhynchus (Baill.) — Whilst I 

 was at Lillehammer a pair were shot by night out of a flock of 

 ten making their way up the Logen to breed somewhere in the 

 north. Both were females, and the one I bought had a con- 

 spicuous white line round the base of the upper mandible, an 

 unusual circumstance in this bird. On dissection well-developed 

 eggs were found, which, from their size, would have seen the 

 light, under ordinary circumstances, in a week or ten days. Prof. 

 Collett, to whom I showed the skin, was surprised at this circum- 

 stance, as this bird is rare in Norway, usually seen on migration 

 only on the west coast, and has never been satisfactorily proved to 

 have nested in the country. 



