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along the shores of the Pasvigelv, and in other places, it is often 

 observed on the coast in winter-time. Some winters it is seen in 

 Lofoten in large flocks. 1 



Cygnus ol or, Gmel. 



Two young birds of this species, neither of which had fully 

 attained the adult plumage, were killed in the south of the 

 country, both. in winter. One was shot on the ice, at the inland 

 extremity of the Christianiafjord, on the 31st December 1869, and 

 is now preserved in the University Museum; 2 the other was kil- 

 led near Tvedestrand, in December 1870, and transmittert to the 

 Museum by Mr. Aall, proprietor of the Næs Ironworks. 



This species has not before been included in the fauna of 

 Norway. 



Anser cinereus, Mey. 



This species is more widely distributed in Norway, by several 

 parallels of latitude, than any one of its congeners. It begins to 

 breed as far south as Stavanger. Exceedingly abundant on the 

 islands off the coast of Trondhjems Stift, — Hitteren, Frøjen, Smø- 

 len, 3 and common in the coastal region of Nordre Trondhjems Amt, 

 particularly on the islands of Vigten and Gjeslinger. Along the 

 shores of Nordland found in all favourable localities, also in Lo- 

 foten and Vesteraalen. It breeds regularly in the neighbourhood 

 of Tromsø and on the islands adjacent, specimens procured from 

 thence are to be seen in the local Museum. 



In West Finmark, I observed it everywhere in the summer of 

 1872, up to the North Cape, one of its haunts being the Stappen 

 „Fuglevær" in the extreme north of the country. Along the Pors- 

 angerfjord it was common in most shore-localities, being partic- 

 ularly numerous on Store Tamsø, where the abundance of its eggs 



1 A species of Cygnus must also breed in Spitsbergen, for in 1870 Mr. Pedersen 

 of Tromsø found a newly laid egg in a nest of Somateria mollissima, near Prince 

 Charles' Poreland. 



2 Recorded under the name of Cygnus musicus jun. in „Nyt Mag. f. Naturv." Vol. 

 18, p. 210. 



3 Nyt Mag. f. Naturv. Vol. 18, p. 2ll. 



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