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WILD NORWAY. 
view. A hundred miles out, passed through a small 
group of Guillemots (unusual at that season), but, 
except a Garden-Warbler and a Starling, we saw nothing 
else of note. 
During voyages at the end of June and during 
July, few land-birds were observed, beyond some of 
those species already mentioned, and notes (by others) 
of Skylarks, Starlings, and Peewits, the two last in some 
numbers. While crossing the Cattegat on June 18th, 
a Yellow Wagtail came on board, completing his passage 
to Sweden free. No Wagtails, it will be noticed, occur 
in my North Sea notes—they probably “book through,” 
via the Baltic. Three birds sent me, caught at sea in 
August, proved to be two Tree-Pipits and a Woodlark. 
There is nothing else specially noteworthy in August, 
beyond the diffusion all over the sea of the newly 
fledged gulls and the oceanic Alcidse. It is not till 
September that the commencement of the return-move¬ 
ment is really conspicuous. In the earlier days of that 
month, the wildfowl are all amove amidst the islets of 
the Norwegian Skjeergaard. Grey Geese and Wigeon, 
with wading-birds and other fowl, are assembling in 
restless packs; but this belongs rather to Norsk orni¬ 
thology than to that of the North Sea. As early as 
September 10th we have seen big flights of Wigeon 
standing out due west from the coast, and on the follow¬ 
ing day, in mid-sea, observed two flights, both high in 
the clouds, steering S.W., as well as other ducks (not 
identified), divers, and mergansers. 
The record this day (Sep. 10th) also includes Dunlins, 
Shearwaters, and numbers of Fulmar Petrels, of both 
the white and grey varieties. These latter accompanied 
