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langere Tid sedan hafva blifvit shjiiten i Trakten och var hånd un- 

 der benåmningen den store Ømmer." 



The individual here referred to not having been preserved, 

 or seen in the flesh by Lilljeborg, this record is hardly sufficiently 

 authenticated. 



5. In the year 1838, Rasch, in his ^Fortegnelse og Bemærknin- 

 ger over de i Norge forekommende Fugle" 1 writes as follows : — Gjen- 

 nem Stud. med. Schiibeler er jeg bleven underrettet om, at den 

 (Aka impennis) i Vinter (1838) er bleven dræbt i Nærheden af 

 Freder iksstad." 



On my applying to Mr. Schiibeler, now Professor of Botany at 

 the University of Christiania, for further information on the sub- 

 ject, he frankly admitted that the individual in question, which 

 was not preserved, and which he did not see, could hardly have 

 been examined with sufficient care. 



6. In the year 1858, Nilsson, in his Skandinavisk Fauna, 2 

 produces a letter from Nordvi, dated Mortensnæs, in East Finmark, 

 May llth 1856, containing a statement to the effect that ab out the 

 year 1848, in the beginning of April, an individual was most likely 

 shot (ganske vist er skudt) at Vardø, but not preserved. This 

 however, like the rest, is hearsay evidence, Nordvi not having 

 examined the individual himself. 



1 Nyt Mag. f. Naturv. 1 B. p. 386. 



2 Foglarne, S** Ed. Vol. 2, p. 571. 



Erratum. 



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