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feeding, dived almost incessantly, and remained beneath 

 water from 10 to 20 seconds. 



Thence he worked down the chain of lakes, seeing 

 another pair of Mergansers, a pair of Black-throated 

 Divers, and another of Wild Duck. 



When he got to the third lake he saw a Wryneck in 

 a tree, and in looking for its nest stumbled on a nest 

 of the Northern Marsh Tit with seven or eight eggs, 

 which, however, he could not get at without a chisel. 

 He shot the hen (which, though subsequently mislaid, 

 was certainly the same as our other specimens) and filled 

 up the hole with cotton and moss. 



Then he went down to the lake, where he saw a fine <? 

 Goosander alone, which he watched a long time. Most 

 likely the ? was sitting on her nest. 



For my part, about an English mile from Tvinde I 

 came to a small birch wood at the riverside, where I took 

 five nests of Fieldfares, found three or four nests of 

 Bramblings, and one with five eggs of Redwing — our 

 first. 



The Bramblings' nests I got up to had no eggs, but 

 two I could not climb to without the irons, as the birch 

 bark was as slippery as any maypole. I lost my blowing 

 instruments, and only found them again after an hour 

 and a half's search. 



The Redwing's nest was placed about a couple of feet 

 from the ground. It was smaller than those of the Field- 

 fares, and in this instance with no grass outside the mud, 

 except a few blades partly interwoven through it ; and it 

 was lined with a wiry grass different from that used by 

 the Fieldfares. It was situated — as stated above— at 2 

 feet from the ground, on the strong branches of a juniper 

 bush at the foot of a birch-tree. The eggs — four — were 

 hard set, except one which was addled. 



The wood in which this nest was found contained also 



