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White-fronted Goose standing in a wet meadow. It was a small 

 dark bird, with conspicuous white front, and some dark colour on 

 the under parts, but not clearly marked. Its head was up, and it 

 rose in a few seconds and went up the river. This is the species 

 which breeds freely in the interior of Finmarken. A. albifrons 

 is only a non-breeding visitor to Norway (vide ' Bird Life in 

 Arctic Norway '). 



Lagopus albus. — Happened to flush only three ; two of them 

 in upper part of forest, — one of them indeed outside the trees, 

 among some dwarf willow and birch growing by a big snow-drift. 

 This was a warm-coloured male. The other was duller in colour, 

 and had still some white on the back. The third bird, flushed 

 from a similar spot near the edge of the birch wood, was a male, 

 and had the back still splashed with white. 



L. mutus. — Flushed one twice at close quarters on the Tron- 

 fjeld. On rising the first time, almost at our feet, it uttered a very 

 low " ug ug." There was still a dash or two of white on its grey 

 back. It just matched the grey rocks splashed with quartz. And 

 indeed it was not unlike the snow-banded fjeld, though this had a 

 yellower tint, derived from the yellow moss mingled with the 

 reindeer-moss, &c. Of Reindeer we saw only signs — fresh signs 

 — and in the forest too. The inhabitants of Tonset like to 

 decorate their gables with a pair of bleached antlers. 



Charadrius pluvialis.—A soft clear mellow whistle drew atten- 

 tion to a remarkably tame pair on the Tronfjeld. One sat until 

 we got close to it ; the other slipped quietly away. We could 

 not find the nest, and it was too miserably wet and cold to lie 

 down and wait. Another single bird was equally tame. They 

 were in splendid plumage. 



Vanellus cristatus. — On the evening of the 4th a flock of 

 twenty were wheeling over the flooded Glommen, and settled at 

 last on some ploughed ground. 



Totanus hypoleucu's. — Two by the Glommen at Tonset, and 

 on the banks of the Nid near Trondhjem. 



T. calidris. — Very noisy about the islets in the Glommen. 



Numenius arquata. — Heard in the mist on Trondfjeld, and a 

 feather picked up. A pair, noisy with sweet rippling whistles, 

 appeared to be breeding in some open lush grass-fields near 

 Trondhjem. 



Sterna fluviatilis. — I saw what I believed to be some of these 

 Terns about Trondhjem Harbour. 



