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to a telephone post, which was most likely P. major. The Grey- 
headed Woodpecker, P. canus , is, if I am not mistaken, common. 
At iirst I thought they were only our Green Wood pecker, they 
struck me at the time as being very small, hut I was deceived by 
the “ laugh,” and yet even in that there is a difference. 
Falco tinnunculus, F. oisalon, and Accipiier nisus, are the Hawks 
of the Romsdal. Near Molde were two fine Falcons, one of them 
chased by a cloud of Terns, the other gyrating and toying in the 
air with some Lesser Black-backed Gulls, which I thought were 
Peregrines ; but Professor Collett tells me they are more likely to 
have been Gyr Falcons (F. gyrfalco ), which are very Peregrine-like 
in colour, but generally larger. One of these tine birds, however, 
showed the moustache so plainly, that 1 am convinced it was 
a Peregrine Falcon. 
That grand bird, the Eagle Owl ( Bubo ijnarus), is probably not 
uncommon in the Romsdal. One was seen by my companions on 
August 16th, in broad daylight, on a tree, and again a day or two 
afterwards, flapping across the lake where it is narrow, perhaps in 
quest of fish. It is a very sedentary bird, perhaps none in Europe 
more so, and it is exceedingly doubtful if it has ever crossed the 
North Sea. An Owl, seen by 11. on September 4th, was most 
likely Asia otns. In 1895 tho Eagle Owl bred in the valley, and 
II. brought a young one to England which I believe is still alive. 
In February, 1895, a Reindeer hunter named lluns shot an 
adult Snowy Owl ( Nyctea scandiaca), which he sent to II. in the 
flesh by post. It measured 58i inches in the spread of its wings, 
and weighed 4 lbs. 2 ozs., and its small ears and long-pointed 
oil-gland were particularly noticeable. In the summer of the same 
year he found three young ones on the ground recently hatched : this 
I believe was a Lemming year, when these pretty little quadrupeds 
were abundant. The nest was about half way up a mountain called 
Storhoi, at an elevation of about 4500 feet, and it was only after 
several days watching the old birds that Huns found it. H. brought 
the young ones to England, except one which died on the voyage ; 
it was September when the other two arrived, and it was at once 
noticed that one was whiter than the other and rather larger, but 
this which was certainly a male was ultimately the smaller of the 
two. These birds could not use their wings until the middle of 
November, and when they did fly they always preferred the 
