430 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Garrulus glandarius. — The only evidence of its presence at 

 Tonset was a blue wing-feather picked up in the lower part of 

 the forest. 



Pica rustica. — At Tonset hardly ever seen far from the houses 

 and farms, where they hop about on the turf-roofs as tame as 

 town Sparrows. How the people rear any poultry here is a 

 wonder, what with the Crows and the Magpies. But you see few 

 fowls running about, and I think they are kept shut up a good 

 deal, as eggs were fairly plentiful, though until we had lowered 

 the stock they were often uneatably stale. The Magpies here 

 struck me — seen at a few yards distance — as having already more 

 white about them on the wing, and the long white flank-feathers 

 showed more. To be seen even in Trondhjem, and I noticed 

 some big nests in the poplars. 



Corvus comix. — The Grey Crows of Tonset did not go far 

 afield, but sat about on the houses, cowsheds, and in the little 

 yards. I have seen from my bedroom window three at the same 

 time in the grassy enclosure round the hotel, within a few yards 

 of the house. They chiefly seem to breed in a little fir wood at 

 the back of the village. When passing through this we were 

 received very angrily by some birds. It is odd to see a Grey 

 Crow sitting on a fir tree, croaking angrily because you will not 

 go away. I think the Grey Crow's croak is usually a little more 

 highly pitched than the Carrion Crow's, and that when the Grey 

 Crow croaks in a low tone his croak has rather less fulness and 

 volume. In this wood I saw four nests, from one of which a 

 bird flew. Three were about fifteen or twenty feet from the 

 ground, the other about twelve feet. All were in thin-stemmed 

 slippery trees, branchless for some distance, and I could only get 

 up to the lowest. It was a huge mass of sticks, twigs, dead 

 grass, moss, and feathers, but was apparently not quite finished. 

 I have seen the Grey Crow in Trondhjem, perched on a poplar 

 close to the Cathedral, 



Cypselus apus. — At Tonset. Good many at Trondhjem. On 

 the 10th they were screaming between eleven and twelve p.m. 



Gecinus canus.— Only recognized by its deep note, in the fir 

 forest at Tonset. 



Cuculus canorus. — At Tonset. 



Anser erythropus, Linn. — As I emerged from a thicket on the 

 banks of the Glommen, near Tonset, I saw, not far off, a Lesser 



