Remarks on the Ornithology of Northern Norway 



by 



Robert Collett. 



With a Map. 



Reart at the Meeting of the Society on 20*'' Dec. 1872. (Printed in April 1873). 



Each of the last three summers I have been enabled to 

 prosecute a series of of zoological researches in the north ern 

 and central portions of the Norwegian coast: in 1870, on the large 

 islands off the Trondhjem Fjord, Hitteren, Frøyen, and others; 

 in 1871, in the provinces of Namdalen and Nordland; in 1872, in 

 West Finmark and the neighbourhood of Tromsø. The principal 

 ornithological facts resulting from the first of these excursions having 

 been already published, 1 the following pages will embrace my resear- 

 ches during the two last summers in the northern parts of the country. 



To give a tolerably complete account of the avifauna of a 

 region so characteristically situated and wide in extent as is the 

 northern coast of Norway, the researches of years would hardly 

 suffice. Therefore it is obvious, that what is here recorded, does by no 

 means pretend to exhaust the subject. Nay, I ara convinced from 

 the observations I have made, that a rich harvest of facts may 

 yet be gathered from further and more diligent researches in 

 regions so attractive by their situation and general character. 



My chief object in the present paper has been to compare and 

 elucidate with regard to habits and geographical distribution the 

 several species known as inhabiting the regions north of the Polar 

 Circle in Norway. Observations from other localities on the North 



1 Ornithologiske Beniærkninger til Norges Fauna (Nyt Mag. f. Naturv. Vol. 18. 

 p. 161). 



