74 ASTUR PALUMBARIUS. 



There are young in them, whicli in several days would be ready for 

 exclusion. Buzzard here is, I think, never so early. 



§ 115. Three.— Mudos-j-^Ywi, West Bothnia, 28 May, 1854. 



These eggs with large young, the fourth hatched. Brought to me 

 at CEfrehyn, by agreement. The man was siu'e it was Koppelo-Haukka. 

 He knows Piekonna [Archibuteo lagopus] well ; but this was quite 

 another kind, which dashes off from its nest and is no more seen. 

 Nothing but birds^ bones under the tree. The legs of the young in 

 the nest have no rudiments of feathers, and the fourth toe is much 

 thinner, and its claw much shorter, than the second. 



§ 116. Three. — Mudos-jarwi, West Bothnia, 1855. 



Taken from the same nest as the last year's eggs [§115], and by the 

 same man. Ludwig got them from him at Muonio-alusta, on the 

 1st June, as he was working his tar-pit. 



§ 117. Three.— PAiQ^, West Finmark, N. lat. 69° 52', 29 April, 

 1855. " J. W. ipse." 



These three eggs were taken by myself about a quarter of a mile 

 (Norwegian) south of Jura-holm, or, at least, of the house which is 

 near the point of the islet. I went this morning (the day I am 

 writing), with Knut, to the place where he had seen some bird of prey 

 making its nest in a tree. It had built there for many years, though 

 one season its four young ones were thrown to the ground by a man 

 who climbed up. It was on the east side of the river, and we 

 saw it first from a bank or old raised beach. Then the bird appeared, 

 showing white over the tail. It was long out of sight ; but, on our 

 hiding ourselves at a distance, it flew and settled in a large tree. 1 

 saw it perfectly with my telescope, even to its yellow eye. The long 

 tail and figure alone would have shown the bird ; and its flight, to a 

 falconer, would have been at a glance decisive, while I at once saw 

 the shortness of its wings. It had several kinds of cries. My guide, 

 who has been a great vermin-slayer, did not know whether he should 

 get skat^ for it, as it was not defalk. The nest was at a good height, 

 in a large Scotch fir ; and I got up to it by making a ladder of a small 



^ [Tlie reward given by the local autliorities ou the production of the heads of 

 certain birds and beasts of prey. — Ed. J 



