166 NYCTALE TENGMALMI. 



§ 539. One. — Tomi-koski, Tepasto, Kemi Lappmark. 18 May, 



1858. 



Found as above by Varan Heiki on the Ounas-joki, in a hole made 

 by Picus martins. 



§ 540. One. — ^Wassara, Kemi Lappmark. 21 May, 1858. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 19th June, by one of the Wassara lads. 

 He said that it was Palok'drki [Picus martius'], and found as above, a 

 fathom or two from the ground ; and that he saw the bird, which was 

 red on the head, and elsewhere black on the body. 



[The above-mentioned e^^ is certainly not that of Picus mai-tius, as the 

 finder thought, though I have no reason to doubt his word that he saw such 

 a bii-d at or near the nest. It is just one of those cases of mistaken identity as 

 to the parentage of an Q^g which are constantly occumng, and which are so 

 annoying to the oologist ; but I have scarcely any hesitation in placing the 

 specimen in my series of Nydale tengmalmi,'] 



§ 541. 0?ie. — Jua-rowa, Sarki-jarwi, East Bothnia. 2 June, 

 1858. "With bird." 



Brought to Muoniovara, with the bird, 7th June, by Piko Heiki. 

 The nest, with four eggs, was found as above in a hole made by Picus 

 martius in a Scotch fir, about a fathom and a half high. Half a mile 

 [Swedish] west of Sarki-jarwi. 



\^h^'2. Four. — Aha-vaara, Kemi Lappmark. 26-31 May, 

 1861. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 2oth June, having been found as above by Piety 

 Kyro in an tm (nest-box).] 



[§ o^Z. Four. — Kippari-saari-ranta, Muotka-jarwi, Enontekis 

 Lappmark. Jmie 1861. 



Brought to Muoniovaara 1st July, ha\dng been found as above about four 

 weeks previously. These eggs are extremely small (one of them measuring 

 only 1-1.3 inch by -97 inch), so that I wrote to Lapland for fiu-ther inquiries to 

 be made of the finder respecting them. In reply I heard that he thought the 

 bird was like any other Pikku Phsi {Nyctale tenymalmi). There was no nest in 

 the same hole in 1862. Mr. WoUey never obtained any authentic trace of the 

 occurrence of Glaucidium jmsserintan in Lapland ; but it was one of the birds 

 for which he was always on the look-out.] 



