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As regards the migratory passage of this species, it is 

 singular that it does not approach the inland districts of the 

 south-east; one or two stray individuals only are known to have 

 been shot near Christiania, in May 1866. Such individuals whose 

 summer habitat is the mountain region of Nordland and Finmark 

 and the country extending south to the Trondhjemsfjord, migrate 

 possibly in a more easterly direction, passing perhaps along the 

 shores of the Baltic, whereas those from the south-western fells 

 follow the coastal line of Norway. 



Aegialites hiaticula, Lin. 



Common everywhere along the coast on sandy and clayey 

 ground. Throughout West Finmark, it is numerous up to the North 

 Cape. A few individuals resort to the mountain meres of the 

 interior. 



The cavity of the nest is lined with small pebbles, of the size 

 of a hazel nut, or sometimes with fragments of the shells of mol- 

 luscs. In Finmark, fresh eggs are to be found about the middle 

 of June, and on the 2nd July the first nestlings were observed, 

 near the Porsangerfjord. The old bircls betray by their excessive 

 alarm the proximity of the nest; uttering a timorous cry, theyfeign 

 to be wounded, and shuffle off over the ground with flapping 

 wings and outspread tail, to divert attention from their brood to 

 themselves. 



Young in down have the back grev tipped with black, and 

 marked at the sides with a black band. Cubitus and scapulars 

 brown mixed with black, manus white. The crown of the head is 

 grey tipped with white, the forehead whitish, and without spots. A 

 black band stretenes from the beak round upon the nape, where 

 it is broadest. Nape white. 



In the stomachs of the individuals shot I found Amphipoda, 

 young Litorinæ, Coleoptera, and fine gravel. 



Vanellus cristatus, Mey. & Wolff. 



Occurs in Nordland sporadically, and is even an occasional 

 visitant on the islands north of the Polar Circle. On Borgevær, 

 for instance, they are not infrequently seen in pairs towards 



