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and in mild winters an occasional merganser will 

 remain. 



Both the cormorant and the shag remain off 

 the coast throughout the year. 



The great northern diver is only seen in spring 

 and autumn. The black-throated diver often 

 remains off the coast through the winter, and the 

 red-throated diver is a regular summer migrant. 



The Sclavonian grebe (Padiceps Ardicus, Bov.) 

 is the only grebe known here. 



The common, the ringed, the black, and 

 Brumich's guillemots remain off the coasts 

 throughout the year. The ringed guillemot 

 appears the commonest. 



The little auk is only a winter visitant. 



The puffin is only seen during the summer, as 

 also the razor-bill. 



The great auk has been seen off this coast, but 

 can hardly now be reckoned in the fauna of the 

 north coast of Finland or Lapland. 



It will be seen by the above list that out of the 

 138 birds enumerated as belonging to the fauna of 

 Yardol, nearly 120 breed here. 



I may here add that the names given by the 

 natives to the different species of birds up here 

 are Finnish, and many of them differ from the Lap 

 names in use at Quickiock, although the word 

 Finmark is used by the Norwegians in the same 



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