Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 59 



and a small bright coloured brownish butterfly, 

 the upper wings uniform brown, the lower ones 

 orange spotted with dark brown. At last, 

 after about two miles of ravine, we came to 

 a Hawk's nest in the cliff about twenty feet 

 above the brook. The ground underneath was 

 covered with Rypa bones, chiefly the pelvis and 

 humerus. The Lapp cut some birch trees and 

 laid them up the cliff, and I sat below, hoping 

 to have in a few minutes some Jer Falcon's 

 eggs in my hands, for although we had not seen 

 the birds (I thought probably our scrambling up 

 the ravine had frightened them) it was evidently 

 a fresh nest. Up he clambered, but to my 

 disappointment there were no eggs, so I made 

 a sketch of the nest, and we walked away. 



Hecalled the bird ''Tunturikoppellohaukka," 

 which I think means Jer Falcon. 



After a little way I lost my bearings com- 

 pletely, and had absolutely no idea where we 

 were ; and after six or seven hours' hard 

 walking I determined to sit down and eat 

 something, having had nothing all day but 

 some milk when 1 started, and now the sun was 

 low and it must have been ten or eleven o'clock. 

 It was during this meal that I made a mistake, 

 for, having finished eating the only bit of bread 

 in my fishing basket, I took a drop of whisky 



