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dry sticks of the same tree^ with dry heather^ and lined with coarse 

 grass. The nest was at the foot of a mountain in Aberdeenshire. It 

 has been occupied for many years." Having read this, I recollected 

 having heard of a nest in a tree from several people, and, amongst 

 the rest, that Mr. Newcome had himself seen it and the birds, which, 

 he was told, and believed, were Golden Eagles. Accordingly I went 

 again to Mr. Gardner^s ; and Mr. Salmon was so good as to accom- 

 pany me. After some conversation of a satisfactory kind, the egg 

 was brought out of the window, and I bought it, having previously 

 observed the cracks near the smaller end. It was said to have been 

 under a glass, and untouched, ever since Mr. Salmon returned it; and 

 that gentleman at once said it was the same eg^. 



[I have been obliged here to condense very mucb the account of this speci- 

 men, which occupies several pages in Mr. WoUey's note-book, and I am un- 

 able, without mentioning other names, to show how great the probability is 

 that it came from the nest seen many years ago by Mr. Newcome. To my 

 mind the evidence is sufficiently conclusive ; and I may add that since the 

 egg came into my possession, I have obtained additional particidars highly 

 corroborating the opinion Mr. Wolley had formed. The result is, that it is a 

 very valuable specimen, whether considered on account of its beauty or on 

 accoimt of the sitiiation of the nest in which it was laid, — a situation which 

 appeal's to be certainly uncommon for British Golden Eagles.] 



§ 45. One. — Akes-lombola, East Bothnia, 1856. 



Brought 6th August, 1856, from the place named above. It was 

 much decomposed inside, and the young had bones '. 



§ 46. Two. — Sammal-vara, Kemi Lappmark, 1857. 

 A. One.— II April, 1857. " J. W. ipse." 



0. W. tab. iii. fig. 4. 



This beautiful egg, something like those of mine figured by Mr. 

 Hewitson [§ 26], I took from the nest found by Heiki. On 4th April 

 the Wassara lads had told me, at Rauhula, that they had seen an Eagle 

 on Keimio-tunturi as they were shooting wild Reindeer the day 

 before. I called at Keimio-niemi, and left word that Fetto should 

 tell Heiki to look for it. In two days Piety brought word that Heiki 

 had found the nest. He had marked the tree, but not looked into it. 

 On 11th April, the morning after Good Friday, I started with Heiki 



1 [In 1855, Mr. Wolley obtained one egg from this nest, which is now in Mr. W. 

 H. Simpson's collection. — Ed.] 



