71 Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 



I find we have altogether now : — 

 117 skins. 

 1232 eggs. 

 7 skeletons. 

 3 skulls. 

 56 embryos in spirit. 



Every individual skin, egg, and embryo 

 numbered and marked — pretty good work. 



The sun now appears to go just below the 

 mountains, and I'm sure that on the top fells 

 one would see the midnight sun. It is light 

 enough now all night to shoot or write. 



The man from Sirkojarvi came to see us 

 to-day, and he says he knows of a Caper- 

 cailzie's nest. He told us when we were 

 there that on a certain hill Woolley had taken 

 a Golden Eagle's nest, but they had not had 

 eggs this year as far as I could understand. 

 Finnish seems a most difficult language to pick 

 up, perfectly differentto most Western European 

 languages, much more like Greek. All I can 

 say are a few words, and fewer sentences. 

 I found four Reed Buntings' nests to-day. 



June 2nd. — Some of the Drakes are collecting 

 on the river. This evening I saw a flock of 

 twenty Pintail Drakes, and several lots of 

 three or four Widgeon Drakes. These two 

 Ducks seem to be the commonest about here. 



