PREFACE. 



The following work on the Fauna of Lap- 

 land is compiled from notes kept during a 

 season's collecting up at Quickiock in 1862. 

 These notes have, for the greater part, already- 

 appeared in the columns of the "Field" News- 

 paper ; but the Editor having kindly given back 

 to the Author the right of republishing, he has, 

 at the request of several friends, collected 

 them in the shape of a volume, with some slight 

 alterations and additions, and again brings them 

 before the public in another form, fancying that 

 they may now be of more^ service to the natu- 

 ralist and traveller than in the columns of a news- 

 paper. As the Author's sole object in going up 

 to Lapland was for the purpose of collecting 

 birds and eggs, the present work will be 

 found rather as a guide to the ornithologist 



