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WILD NORWAY. 
Norway, and among a few skins brought home were 
included the following species :— 
Shrew ( Sorex vulgaris), common throughout Scandinavia. 
Water-shrew (S. fodiens ), do. 
Long-tailed field-mouse (. Mus sylvaticus), do. 
Short-tailed field-mouse (. Arvicola arvalis ), do. 
Water-vole (. Arvicola amphibius), do. 
Black water-vole (? sp., in Norsk “vaund”), on fjeld. 
-(?) (Arvicola ratticeps), common on fjeld. 
Bank-vole ( Lemmus glareolus ), generally distributed. 
Squirrel ( Sciurus vulgaris), fur very grey in autumn. 
Stoat (. Mustela erminea), very confiding and even playful. 
The nests of the lemmings, formed of dry grass, are 
placed above-ground at the entrance of their holes. 
Those on high fjeld are conspicuous enough, though 
naturally less so among the tangled plant-growth of the 
forest. While after reindeer in August, we frequently 
found nests that had been pillaged by foxes. The young 
lemmings are blind and naked, but the dark patches of 
their future fur are already shown on the bare skin. 
After mid-September the lemmings were beginning 
to migrate, all going northwards—why, or whither, 
none but they can tell. While crossing Miiru-Sjoen 
at daybreak, we frequently fell in with fleets of lemmings 
swimming boldly across the lake, though it was more 
than a mile in width and full of pike and five-pound 
trout. After a stormy day the lee-shores were strewn 
with dead. On a high fj eld-lake we have seen a trout 
take down a crossing lemming. 
Notes on Norwegian Birds. 
To condense into a portion of one chapter a synopsis 
of the avifauna of a big country that might well occupy 
two volumes is not easy. The plan adopted has been 
