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Mallard, Anas boschas (L.) — Common wherever there are 

 suitable spots. 



Teal, Querquedula crecca (L.) — Common, especially at Fok- 

 stuen, where it was laying. 



Scaup, Fuligula marila (L.) — I saw several Scaup on the 

 Miosen Lake, near Lillehammer. A large flock, of males only, 

 on a lake near Fokstuen, the females being apparently sitting. 



Tufted Duck, F. cristata (Leach). — I am pretty certain I saw 

 a pair near Fokstuen, but was unable to get near enough to be 

 quite sure. With an india-rubber boat great things might be 

 done amongst the duck at Fokstuen. I never cared to shoot 

 them for food (although food was neither plentiful nor varied at 

 that station), but I did shoot a couple of Teal for the Sunday 

 dinner of my wife and myself at a time of great scarcity. I may 

 as well here advise intending visitors to Fokstuen to take some 

 bread or biscuit and tinned meat and soup with them ; all that 

 can be obtained there is coffee, beer, fladbrod (rye-bread made 

 the summer before), occasional eggs, and grayling, which at 

 our visit were out of season, and kept getting staler and staler 

 every day. 



Golden-eye, Clangula glaucion (L.) — I saw an adult male on 

 Lake Miosen from the steamer, when first arriving at Lille- 

 hammer, but never satisfactorily identified the bird afterwards. 



Velvet Scoter, Oedemia fusca (L.) — I saw a few on the 

 Miosen Lake, several small companies on the still parts of the 

 Logen, on our way up the Gudbrandsdal, and a good many on the 

 lakes at Fokstuen. 



Common Scoter, 0. nigra (L.) — I saw many on the Miosen, 

 and a great number at Fokstuen, and elsewhere on Dovre. 



Goosander, Mergios merganser (L.) — I saw several on the 

 Miosen, and a pair in the marshes at Laurgaard. There were 

 some Mergi at Fokstuen, but I do not know of which species. 



Red-breasted Merganser, M. serrator (L.) — I obtained a fine 

 male in breeding plumage at Lillehammer, but did not identify it 

 elsewhere. 



Ring Dove, Columba palumbus (L.) — Plentiful at Lillehammer 

 and in the Gudbrandsdal ; not seen on Dovre. 



Ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus (Leach). — First met with on the 

 fells above Laurgaard, where it seems fairly abundant in suitable 

 places ; also near Fokstuen, 



