96 FALCO GYHFALCO. 



a furlong off to the west is a high bare-topped hill, but there are 

 marshes between. The bird was whitish underneath, with long 

 wings, but the tail not long. It flew rapidly, not slowly as a 

 Piekonna (Rough-legged Buzzard), and had a difterent voice, more 

 like that of Pouta-Haukka (Merlin), but stronger. One of the men 

 climbed up and put the egg in his glove; there was already a 

 hole in it, through which the beak of the young bird appeared. She 

 called to him not to disturb the other young, of which she was not 

 sure whether there were more than two ; but he threw them on the 

 ground. They were small and white. It was in 1855 that he or the 

 other man threw the young from the same nest, which was not large, 

 and the sticks old and without bark. She added that it was Erki's-day 

 (St. Eric's) that the e^^ was taken; and on my asking the day of 

 the week, replied Monday, which agrees with the Almanack — an ad- 

 ditional proof of her accuracy. Putting all together, I can hardly 

 doubt the egg is a Gyrfalcon's. 



^ 2\\. Three. — Hanhi-jarwi-maa, Enontekis Lappmark, 26 

 April, IS 58. 



Brought to Muoniovaara, 8th May, by Heiki, from the girl men- 

 tioned in the last note. They are from the same place as the one egg 

 taken the year before [§ 210]. The nest was in a tree about seven 

 fathoms from the ground, and three or four hundred fathoms from 

 the spot where the nest was in former years. 



§ 212. r//ree.— West Einmark, 28 April, 1857. 



Received by me, 26th July, at Maunu, where they had been left 

 by Lassi. Ludwig recognized them at once as eggs of which he had 

 seen two in a nest, and desired another man, who was with him at 

 the time, to take subsequently. On 28th April, he had been with 

 him, and got a nest with both the old birds [§ 204] . They met with 

 two lads, one of whom had got the eggs and bird from another nest, 

 and all went together to search some likely-looking cliffs they knew of, 

 which were about a mile (Swedish) from the first-mentioned nest, 

 with a large lake intervening. They drove from that nest, which was 

 on the west side of the lake and about its middle, keeping on the ice 

 and then a bit on the land. They saw the bird leave the nest, and 

 fly Avildly away without coming back. The cliff overlooked a marsh, 

 already bare, the wind having blown away the snow earlier. The nest 



