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On the Fillefjeld, they occurred in large numbers in 1871, the 

 country round then swarming with My odes lemmus. Mr. Lysne 

 alone collected 28 of their eggs, the nests containing from 2 to 

 4 eggs each. Several pair bred twice that summer, and fresh eggs 

 were to be found the whole season through. So late as the 6th 

 and 9th September, Mr. Lysne discovered nests containing together 

 7 eggs, some of them newly laid. The colour ofthese autumn sets 

 was considerably paler than common, in several cases being nearly 

 white. All the nests were located from 3,400' to 5,600' a. 1. s. (some 

 of them almost at the summit of Suletind) on the ledges of the 

 fells, and close to a patch of grass. 



Aquila chrysaetos, Lin. 

 Occurs scattered and in small numbers north of the Polar 

 Circle; it is a resident in East Finmark and in the neighbourhood 

 of Tromsø. An individual from the latter locality, shot in the 

 winter season, is preserved in the Museum of the town. 



Haliaeto s albicilla, Lin. 

 Probably more abundant in the coastal region of Trondhjems 

 Stift than anywhere in the country, especially off Fosen, Namdalen, 

 and Helgeland, in the province of Nordland. Indeed it is common 

 along the whole coast, up to the Russian frontier, everywhere as a 

 resident, and in particular is never wanting on the ..Fuglebjerge", 

 at Stappen even, close to the North Cape, where I met with it 

 in June 1872. 



On the 23rd June 1871, at Salsvand in Namdalen, I examined 

 a nest, which had been occupied for a succession of years, 

 though robbed of every brood. It was built in the naked trunk 

 of a dead fir-tree, about 40' high. The ground beneath the tree 

 was white w T ith excrements, and sterna and other bones of Mergus 

 and divers sea-fowl were everywhere strewed around. 



The nest was 3' high andmeasured about 6' in diameter. At 

 the top is was almost flat, the exterior being composed of naked 

 firsticks, about an inch thick. The inside was 'lined to the very 

 edge with a thick layer of moss, straws, dry grass, stalks of 



