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Finmark, Woolley found completed clutches (three to 
four eggs) in two consecutive years as early as April 
16th—many by the end of that month, all on pines. 
Wheelwright gives June 8th as the date of a nest on the 
bleak highlands around Lake Wihrigaur. The Peregrine 
is much less numerous than the Jer-falcon. 
In the south, the Ospreys also breed in the steep 
wooded crags of the fjords, laying in June. Nest with 
newly-hatched young on July 4th—Nordmore (M.). 
Further north they prefer pines as a rule ; but A. shot 
a female engaged in building on a tall rock-steeple 
in Lapland, on June 7 th ; while Prof. Collett records 
finding two young about eight days old on June 25th 
in Folden-fjord. This nest was on a pine. 
Hen-Harrier, very rare; nest with six eggs, June 
4th, on marshes of Dovre-fjeld. No other harrier 
observed in Norway, though Circus seruginosus is not 
uncommon in Denmark. 
The eyrie of the Golden Eagle is always in high cliffs, 
generally far inland; whereas the white-tailed Sea-Eagle 
nests indiscriminately on cliffs, trees, or on the ground. 
Mr. Musters gives me the following dates : “ May 5 th.— 
Took Sea-Eagle’s nest on a high cliff, with two eggs, 
hard-sat. May 7th.—Shot eagle from nest on small 
hillock in the midst of a bog on Smolen—one egg, hard 
sat. May 18 th.—Eagle’s nest with three young-in-down 
on ledge of low cliff. Could walk into nest. Have 
seen many nests on pine-trees.” 
The Snowy-Owl breeds, on the ground, on the barren 
plateaux of the high fjeld, having eggs by June 1st. 
In “ lemming - years,” when stimulated by super¬ 
abundant food, this species (with other birds of prey) 
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