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^ 528. Tliree. — Kiwi-luoma, Salmo-jarwi, East Bothnia. 14 

 April, 1857. 



Found on a cliff about a quarter of a mile from Sarki-palita, the 

 Tuesday after Pcldsidisen [Easter] , by Simon Peter, who brought 

 them to Muoniovara the Monday following, as I noted at the time. 

 The Huuhkaja which he saw had ears — " smallish ears." The same 

 pair of birds as last year's nests [§ 527, and probably § 526], though 

 they had rather shifted their quarters. 



[Several of the eggs laid by tlie Salmo-jarwi Eagle-Owl have the shell very 

 coarse-grained j and this is particularly the case in one of the above lot.] 



§ 529. Three. — ^iEkas-korkion-pahta, East Bothnia. 13 IVIay, 

 1856. 



Brought by Anders Wassara, on the 18th May. He says that he 

 saw the bird, and that it was Korwa-Huuhkaja [Eared Huuhkaja] . His 

 brother found the nest on the sand under the roots, or just in the 

 spot where the roots had been, of an overturned tree, on a steep 

 hni-side near a force. There are small cliffs or rocks by the river 

 ^Ekas-joki. 



The following year the nest of this pair of Eagle-Owls was found 

 by the same lad in a similar site, " on the ground, against the up- 

 turned roots of a tree facing the south, on the side of a dell, where he 

 had often heard the birds cry ' hugh, hugh.' He was sure it was the 

 Eared Huuhkaja, though he did not see it very distinctly as it flew 

 away. No nest — a mere slight hollow. The bii'd deserted the two 

 eggs, which were quite fresh. The place was about a quarter of a 

 mile (Swedish) to the east of ^kas-jarwi." 



[The eggs of 1857 are in the collections of Sir W. Milner and Mr. Braik- 

 enridge.] 



[§ 530. 0;?^.— 1853. Mr. J. H. Gurney's Menagerie. 



This is the first e^^ laid by the female of a pair of birds bred by Mr. Edward 

 Foimtaine, whose remarkable success in propagating this fine species in con- 

 finement has been recorded by himself in ' The Ibis,' vol. i, pp. 273-275.] 



[} 531. 7^0.-1857. Mr. J. H. Gurney's Menagerie. 



These from the same bird as the last (§ 530). Though she lays and sits 

 every year, she has not hitherto (1858) produced any offspring.] 



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