THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 240.— December, 1896. 



AN ORNITHOLOGICAL TOUR IN NORWAY. 



By 0. V. Aplin, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 432.) 



III. Arctic Norway. 

 June 11th, we sailed on board the Norwegian mail steamer, 

 1 Erling Jarl,' a fast and very comfortable boat. In the Trondhjem 

 fjord were Eiders, a Raven, Black Guillemots, and a few Scoters. 

 A drake Eider is very conspicuous, and has the appearance of 

 a duck flying upside down, the usual arrangement of colours, 

 dark above and light below, being reversed. At and near Rorvik, 

 in the evening, were a good many Black Guillemots (which fly 

 fast like a Quail), Eiders, Arctic Terns, Kittiwakes, and an adult 

 Richardson's Skua attending some of the last named ; throughout 

 our journey Eiders and Black Guillemots were frequently seen. 

 The latter are remarkably neat little fellows, their red legs con- 

 spicuous as a passing bird swerves at close quarters. In a 

 small cove near Rorvik a colony of Lesser Black-backed Gulls 

 were sitting close together on shore. On the 12th we crossed 

 the Arctic Circle near Hestmando early in the morning, and 

 about 11.30 came into Bodo. We had half an hour on shore, 

 but saw only a Raven flying over the little wooden town, uttering 

 short deep hollow croaks ; whence perhaps the Swedish name 

 "korp." Outside ; besides other birds already mentioned, there 

 had been Common Gulls, Cormorants, Shags, and some Oyster- 

 catchers on rocky holms. Bodo, backed with mountains still heavily 



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