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west coast of Norway, and does not come so far 

 inland as Buffon's skua. 



I have, I believe, an authentic egg of the 

 pomarine skua in my collection obtained from 

 Greenland, and this is more pointed at the smaller 

 end than the egg of any other skua I ever saw. It 

 exactly agrees in shape with Mr. A. Newton's 

 coloured figure in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society, and perhaps this pointed shape is a 

 characteristic of this egg. 



The wild swan (Cygnus musicus, Tern. ; " vild 

 svan," Sw., "neift scha," Lap.) — I never saw the 

 wild swan in the vicinity of Quickiock, but I ob- 

 tained two full nests from lockmock, the one con- 

 taining seven, the other five eggs. They appear 

 never to go right up on to the snow fells, but to 

 breed in the inland lakes that he in the meadows 

 at their feet. 



The bean goose (Anser segetum, Gm. ; " skogs 

 gas," Sw., "tschuonga," Lap.) — I never was able 

 to find the nest of this goose, and the only egg 

 which I obtained I took out of an old female which 

 I shot down at Quickiock in the end of May. But 

 this goose does breed here, and, unlike the fell 

 goose next described, appears never to go up on 

 to the high fells, but to breed in the wood lakes, 

 whence its Swedish name of " skogs gas," or 

 wood-goose. The egg which I obtained was 



