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WILD NORWAY. 
We found the Icterine warbler fairly common, both 
in the Forde valley and on the scrubby shores of 
Vossevangen lake, near Bergen, but failed to detect the 
nest, for the bird is of very rapid flight and resents 
being watched. Some years before, in Sogndal (Sogne 
fjord), a nest containing six beautiful eggs was taken 
in the garden adjoining our house, and brought to me 
in the second week of June. 
Having written at some length on these four 
characteristic species (the pied flycatcher, northern tit, 
ortolan, and Icterine warbler), I will conclude with a 
few short notes on the commoner birds observed :— 
Brambling —scarce ; only a few pairs breeding here, 
laying before mid-May. Nests chiefly in alders and 
silver-birch. We found fledged young (from nest in a 
pine-tree) on June 1st. 
Chaffinch —common; feeding fledged young on 
June 6 th. 
Tree-Pipit — common ; first heard singing on 
June 3rd. 
Reed-Bunting —scattered pairs on each tiny patch 
of bog. 
Yelloiv-Hammer —fairly common. 
Longtailed Tit — northern type, with very white 
head; observed once. 
Oxeye Tit —common; feeding fledged young, May 
30th. 
Wryneck —three pairs breeding in valley. 
Great Spotted Woodpecker —observed twice or thrice. 
Lesser Whitethroat —heard singing in our garden at 
Forde on June 4th. As we heard it no more, presume 
it went on northwards. 
