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boys often snare them from tlie tree, with a hair 

 noose, on a long pole. It is an excellent cage bird, 

 but must not be kept too warm, or it will soon die. 



The Turtle Dove. Strange to say, a pair 

 of turtle doves {Golumha turtur, Ray ; " turtur 

 dufa," Sw.) were shot at Quickiock a few 

 years since, on the ground right in front of 

 the priest's house. "We never, however, saw 

 a wild pigeon of any kind in Lapland, nor do 

 I believe, except as an extraordinary instance, 

 that any of the family come up so far north. 



The capercailzie (Tetrao urog alius, L.) was 

 very common in these forests. The largest 

 male which I shot up here weighed 111b., and 

 this is about the common size of a large 

 male in Wermland ; so, contrary to the usual 

 opinion here, I do not think the capercailzie 

 in Lapland are so much smaller than those in 

 Wermland. 



The hazel grouse (Tet. bonasia, Lin.; "hjerpe," 

 Sw.) was also very common round Quickiock, and 

 I observed that in those which we shot here the 

 plumage was lighter and prettier than in the 

 Wermland hazel grouse. I may add that in these 

 forests, which are thin and scrubby, the sport is 

 much better than in the dense Wermland forests, 

 and a man can now and then get a flying shot. 



The ptarmigan {Lagojpus alpina, Nilss. ; " fall 



