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Coast, in particular Nordland, will, however, be found subjoined, 

 and I have likewise recorded such of the latest ornithological 

 discoveries in the country as I held to be of a special interest. 



As regards Finmark, the eastem portion of that Stift, or „Øst- 

 finmarken" has been specially favoured, in having been made the 

 subject of comparatively accurate researches, extending over a 

 period of many years, — as witness the labours of Schrader, 1 Som- 

 merfelt.- Xordvi. Bearing this in mind, I passed the whole of 

 last summer in West Finmark and Tromsø Amt, 3 provinces com- 

 paratively little known to ornithologists. The localities visited werd 

 chiefly the following: — In Finmarken Amt the trac ts bordering on 

 the Porsanger Fjord, the country round the North Cape, and the valley 

 of Alten; in Tromsø Amt, the island of Tromsø, and the valley 

 of the Maalselv. Store Tamsø, an island in the Porsanger 

 Fjord, about 1 □ mile in extent, attracted my attention in a special 

 degree: here I found a very considerable number of the Arctic 

 Grallae and Natatorcs, for instance Tringa minuta, and Branta 

 leucopsis. As in the valley of the Maalselv and in Alten, I 

 observed not a few species of the central European fauna, which, 

 owing to the influence of the Gulf Stream on the climate. are 

 enabled to range to a latitude in Norway far exceeding their limits 

 in the eastern interior portions of the European Continent: so also 

 at Gjæsvær, a bird preserve and fishing locality west of the North 

 Capo. I found several of the more easteriy species beyond their 

 extreme western range, as hitherto known. 



The localities which I explored in the summer of 1*71. were 

 chiefly the tracts bordering on the Foldenfjord, and the sonthern 

 portions of Helgeland. 



The directors of the Bergen Museum kindly placed at my 

 disposal the late Pastor Heltzei^s MS. on the fauna and Hora 

 of Helgeland, belonging to that institution. In tliis voluminoui 

 work. which is brought down to the year 1S4'2, all the species 



I Journ. i'. Orhith 1853, p. 240. 



7 6ff. Kgli V(.-t. Akad. Furl.. 1861, p. C,7. 



II 'J'h<- most ■OrtheiH part of this ..Amt'' is in latitude To" 30'. 



