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are generally plump. Roimd about the nest are found mice and I 

 lemmings, dismembered and entire. 



This species is an annual visitant in the coastal region of the 

 south. A young male was caught alive in the streets of Christiania 

 in March 1872. 



Last autumn (1872), when they were abundant in the tracts 

 bordering on the Throndhjemsfjord, an interesting observation was 

 made here. Every evening, a considerable number of these birds 

 congregated on a small rock close to the „Munkholm' k , in the 

 Fjord, where they sat like gulls and were easely killed. 



Sur nia ulula, Lin. (nisoria, Mey., funerea, rec.) 

 Like the foregoing species common in Finmark, but does not 

 occur anywhere in large numbers, being dispersed throughout most 

 of the districts; it is, however, generally more abundant in years ; 

 when the lemmings undertake their migrations. Nests containing 



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9 eggs have at such periods been repeatedly found in Varanger 

 (Nordvi); one with 7 eggs was tåken last summer (1872). 



Glaucidium p asser inum, Lin. 



The northern limit of the distribution of this species is Nord- p 

 land (66°), where several individuals have been found and minutely ri 

 described by Heltzen, (vide MS., 1842); individuals having been 

 killed both in summer and in autumn, it is no doubt a resident. 

 So far north as the Trondhjemsfjord. the species is tolerably abun- ^ 

 dant, but is no doubt most widely distributed in the south-eastern 

 tracts of the interior (vicinity of Christiania, for instance), where ,| 

 it occurs in considerable numbers. le 



Every year not a few individuals are caught alive or shoti 

 near Christiania. One of the males presented to the University 

 Museum (Dec. 1872) measured as follows: total length 158 mm\ 

 wing 95, tail 57, tarsus 18 mm. As is the case with most of the 

 specimens procured, it was tåken with the hand while attempting 

 to prey on the small birds close to the houses. j , 



Ny eta I a Te ny malm i, Gmel. i 

 ln the summer of 1872, several individuals were killed on 



