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Common throughout Finmark on the wooded banks of rivers 

 i and freshwater lakes, especially in the inland districts towards the 

 Russian frontier. It is this species which the Lapps induce to 

 build in the hollowed trunks of trees, conveniently placed along 

 the river-banks. Like most other species of northern ducks it is 

 | also abundant in favourable localities on the southern fells. 

 Resident up to Lofoten, and probably still further north. 



Glaucion islandicum, Gmel. 

 Two specimens of this arctic bird have been procured in 

 Norway, botn by Mr. Schrader, in the Varangerfjord, in 1848 and 

 1851 ; 1 the last was found in company with some of the foregoing 

 species. 



Harelda glacialis, Lin. 

 In Finmark, this species is found breeding in large numbers 

 on the shores of the freshwater lakes, at the northern extremity 

 of Magerø even; on the coast, it is a resident everywhere up to 

 ' the Varangerfjord. 



It breeds also, though less abundantly, on the banks of the 

 meres on the Dovre and Langfjelde with theii\ ramifications, as 

 j far south as 60° 30'; a nest or two are found every year 

 in these localities. On the 3>d July 1872, one was discovered, 

 containing 7 eggs sligthtly incubated, on the banks of the Syndin- 

 vand, in Valders, and individuals were killed in the same spot by 

 Messrs. Brown and Alston, in July 1871 (recorded in letters). 



Oedemia fuse a, Lin. 



Resident as far north as Tromsø, and breeds abundantly in 

 the inland districts of Finmark. 



Detachments of this species, consisting of immature individ- 

 uals, are met with the summer through in most of the western 

 and northern fjords. I have often observed such individuals on 

 the outermost Skjærgaarde, distant several miles from the main- 

 land. 



1 Journ. f. Ornith. 1853, p. 319. 



