GO THE ZOOLOGIST. 



long grass just above the shore. One would sometimes perch on 

 a tree. At Grindo, on the 14th, a boy gave us a " hard-sat" 

 egg. On the 20th several were noisy about the Kvalo pools. I 

 put up a young one just able to fly, and another swam out to 

 avoid us. 



T. hypoleucus. — The Common Sandpiper was seen on the 

 stream in the Tromsdal above the Lapp encampment, and again 

 on the 24th about the shores of the lake behind Svolvaer. 



Tringa temmincki. — On July 20th we landed at Tisnaes, the 

 point of the big island of Kvalo which is nearest to the southern 

 end of Tromso Island. Walking over the peat-bog where cloud- 

 berry showed its ripening fruit, we roused a small wader, which 

 flew round with a trilling note, then settled on a lump of peat. 

 It was presently joined by the other one ; no doubt they had 

 young hidden somewhere close at hand. 



T. striata. — A Purple Sandpiper was seen on July 23rd on 

 the rocky shore of an islet off Store Molle in the Lofotens. It 

 was excessively tame. 



T. alpina. — The Dunlin was seen on the 20th on the Kvalo 

 moors, and was from its manner evidently breeding 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. — Walking over these moors, which 

 strongly reminded me of Wales, we came to higher ground, and 

 reached the series of small lakes of which we were in search. 

 From a pool margined with sedge, a small wader got up and 

 flew anxiously round, with a noise like " wick wick," then settled 

 on the water. We watched both birds, one, probably the female, 

 being rather the larger and brighter of the two. They swam 

 high in the water, with the neck straight, head well up and 

 nodding. Nothing of bird life in Norway pleased us more than 

 this introduction to these trimly-built and confiding little waders. 

 My friend half swam, half waded, out into the pool, and on a 

 spongy islet found a slight hollow in the moss, the empty nest. 

 We then in two places noticed something moving on the water as 

 if a fly had fallen in. The glass showed that the appearance was 

 due to a couple of nestling Phalaropes, which were swimming 

 with scarcely more than their bills above water. 



Charadrius pluvialis. — There were many pairs of Golden 

 Plover about these barren uplands ; in fact, I have never seen 

 them so numerous on any moor. 



