254 



and females, in good condition. The intestinal passage contained 

 numerous Ascarides, some of which had passed up into the stomach. 

 The latter was full of the larvæ of Eateres, and a few other 



Coleoptera. 



On the south coast, some of the flocks tarry til late in the 

 autumn; Mr. Bahr found them as late as November, 1871, on the 

 frozen marshes in the Jæderen district, and possibly it may occur 

 here in the winter too; Febr. 16tb , 1862, I saw an individual in 

 the game market of Christiania. 



Squatarola heiv eti ca, Lin. 



A few individuals only have been observed or shot in Fin- 

 mark, in the fall of the year, from the latter end of August 

 (Xordvi), — never in the actual breeding-season, and there is, I 

 believe, no proof of the species ever having bred on Norwegian 

 ground. The line of migration to and from their eastern breeding- 

 haunts passes along the coast of Nonvay; this is the case in par- 

 ticular with the autumn flights, many of which are annually observed 

 on the sea-shore in the west and south of the country. 



In the stomachs of individuals shot near Christiania, in Sept- 

 ember 1870, I found insects, chiefly Coleoptera, of the genus Bern- 

 Iridium, Curcidionidæ, Aphodii and Harpalirri, also Hemiptera, 

 a few freshwater molluscs (Limnæus pålusiris), gravel, and seeds 

 of a sea-shore plant. 



Eudromias morinellus, Lin. 



Everywhere scattered over the plateaus of the fells in Fin- 

 mark, but is not a very conspicuous hird in the breeding-time. 



A nest tåken near the Porsangerfjord. July 5*, contained 3 

 eggs, almost incubated. Wishing to preserve the young birds as 

 specimens, I hatched them myself, in the course of four and twenry 

 hours, for the most part by keeping them on my breast. Their 

 total length was 78 mm, tarsus 25. 1 



In the stomachs of individuals shot in Jane, 1871, on the Dovre, 

 I found (Jolroj)trra, chiefty Bembidium, larva 4 of Elateres, Lumbrici, 

 and tine gravel. 



1 Dress detcribed in Nyt Mng. f. Natur v. Vol. 18, p. 196. 



