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birds being anything but shy, considerable numbers were killed 

 by the inhabitants. At the expiration of March they had all left. 



Tadorna vulpanser, Flem. 



Found breeding as far north as the Skjærgaard between 

 Tromsø and Hammerfest, its northern range being about 70°. A 

 young male, shot at Lyngen in May 1872, is preserved in the 

 Tromsø Museum. Occurs sporadically in Finmark up to the Rus- 

 sian frontier, and has been frequently observed in the Varanger- 

 fjord. ' 



Breeds most abundantly in the coastal region south of the 1 1 

 Trondhjemsfjord. On Jæderen, a locality in which it occurs in 

 great numbers, it has sometimes been found nesting in stone 1 

 fences, at a distance of several miles from the sea-shore. On 

 the 6th June 1872, Mr. Landmark discovered a nest here, built 

 beneath the flooring of a barn; several of the eggs were tåken 

 successively, and the female continued laying till the number had i 

 reached 19. Mr. Irgens, however, tells me that at Borgevær he i 

 has often tåken as many as 20 eggs from one nest, and once 28, i 

 all laid by the same bird. 



In the stomachs of males, shot on Jæderen, I found: — in 

 one almost exclusively the fragments of plants (stems of Gramineæ), 

 and a quantity of gravel; in another seeds and vegetable matter, 

 fragments of a Carabus nitens, and the larvæ of Er ist ni is. 



Mareca pcnelope, Lin. 



Common on the shores of freshwater lakes in Lofoten and Al- j 

 ten, and found breeding up to the Pv us si an frontier. 



In the stomach of an individual shot near Christiania, in Sep- 

 tember 1871, I found gravel and fragments of Ranitucuhis flammula. 



Chaulelasmtis strepera, Lin. 

 In November 1872, a male in normal winter dress was found 

 in the oeighbourhood of Bergen, and presented to the museum by 

 Mr. Frich;. 



This species is included for the first time here among the 

 Norwegian avifauna. 



