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another. In the song there is a Nightingale-like high long note 

 repeated several times in the same pitch ; then the song goes off 

 into a little "jug." Then we have " wee wee wee wee wee wee," 

 ascending, or " wirreee wirreee wirreee wirreee," ascending also. 

 Then a Thrush-like " wee-choy wee-choy wee-choy " (high and 

 low), and so on with variations ; and every now and then the little 

 metallic " ting ting ting ting," which has earned for the Bluethroat 

 the name of " bell-bird." Now and then the bird flew up into 

 the air for a little way and descended, Pipit-like, with set wings 

 and outspread tail (showing the rufous-chestnut colour), singing 

 brightly the " wirrreee " or the " weee." Presently, as I watched 

 him, the male of the pair sang in an ecstasy, for his plain- 

 coloured mate, which I could see, was creeping and hopping 

 about among the growth of arctic birch close to where he settled, 

 and he was performing like a Robin. His head and neck were 

 stretched up, and his bill pointed nearly upwards ; his tail was 

 flirted up and down, or held at rather less than a right angle with 

 his body, and his wings were drooped. So he sang until she 

 moved away, and he dashed after her. The next evening, after a 

 wet day, we made our way again to the fjeld, and found another 

 Bluethroat singing in a similar hollow. They had no com- 

 panions in the bird way up here, save some Meadow Pipits 

 (which always like a dreary scene), Golden Plover, Ptarmigan, and 

 Curlew. 



Sylvia cinerea. — Not uncommon at Trondhjem. 



S. curruca. — One heard and seen in a clearing dotted with 

 bushes, in the fir forest, some 300 feet above Tonset. 



S. atricapilla. — Several in full and rich song in the Nid valley, 

 Trondjhem. 



S. hortensis. — One in song in the same locality. 



Pkylloscopus rufus. — Not observed at Tonset. But, going 

 down to Trondhjem, we fell in with it at Storeri ; and in and 

 about Trondhjem it was fairly common and more numerous than 

 the Willow Wren, both at the beginning and end of June. 



P. trochilus. — Very common at Tonset, almost the only small 

 bird to be seen in the low-lying thickets along the river ; some 

 in the fir forests. A few only at Trondhjem. 



Parus major. — Not seen at Tonset. Numerous at and near 

 Trondhjem ; it is the common Tit there. 



P. cinctus, Bodd. — We saw two or three at the upper edge of 



