36 AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 



§ 42. Two. — Kuusi-niemi, East Bothnia, 23 and 24 April, 

 1855^ 



These were brought to Ludwig 26th May, 1855. The finder called 

 them Eagle Owl's, but they appear to be Golden Eagle's. He said 

 he took them near Kuusi-niemi — " Six Points," which is between 

 Parkajoki and Kihlangi, below Muonioniska. He further said that 

 the bird was very wild, and that he could not see it. Eagle Owls 

 were in the habit of hooting about the rock where he took the 

 eggs. 



§ 43. One. — Ketto-mella, Enontekis Lappmark, N. lat. 68°20'. 

 30 April, 1855. 



Piety climbed up to this well-known nest himself on the day men- 

 tioned. It was not a very large tree ; but a very big nest halfway up 

 it. A tree with a nest had been cut down there four or five years 

 before. He saw the two birds ; they were " Black Eagles." He 

 thinks they have some little white on the tail, but they were certainly 

 not Sea-Eagles. They were shy. There was a young one with eyes 

 formed in the single egg. 



§ 44. 0??^.— Aberdeenshire, 28 March, 1855 (?). Erom Mr. J. 

 Gardner's Collection. 



0. W. tab. ii. fig. 2. 



I first saw this egg in Mr. Gardner's shop-window, January 22nd, 

 1856. For its history I was referred to Mr. J. D. Salmon ; and on going 

 to him, as I at once did, he told me that he got the egg in the spring 

 of 1855, soon after it was received by Mr. Gardner^ who subsequently 

 took it back from him (Mr. Salmon). Mr. Salmon was informed 

 that it had come to Mr. Gardner from a gamekeeper in Yorkshire ; and 

 the following particulars, among others more precise, were given in 

 writing respecting it. " The egg of the Golden Eagle was taken March 

 28th. There were two eggs in the nest^ on which the old bird had sat 

 about a week. It was built in a Scotch Fir-tree, and was composed of 



^ [With respect to the nidification of Eagles in Lapland, Mr. Wolley has re- 

 marked (Cat. Eggs, 1855-56, p. 7), " A pair of Golden Eagles is generally to be 

 found at the foot of the several groups of mountains in the interior, building upon 

 some great tree — less frequently on a rock, — the reverse of what we see in Scotland. 

 The Sea-Eagle, on the other hand, is mostly near the coast, or on large lakes, as 

 with us." — Ed.] 



