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ascending the river to its parent lake, Kilpisjarvi, among the 

 mountains. No great success attended him here ; but in his 

 voyage back, under circumstances of which a thrilling account 

 was communicated to Mr. Hewitson's pages, he met with rather 

 better fortune, though he obtained little else than some eggs of 

 a species, the Scaup Duck, which were already known to col- 

 lectors. On his return to ]\Iuonioniska, he stayed there only 

 long enough to ascertain the particulars of the collections which 

 had accumulated for him, and was off again, this time for Eng- 

 land, which he reached in August. Depositing his treasui-es, 

 including eggs of the Shore Lark, Siberian Jay, Spotted Red- 

 shank, Temmiuck's Stint, and Little White-fronted Goose, with 

 the same friends as before, he departed in a few weeks a second 

 time for the North, and travelling by way of Berlin (where he 

 did not forget to inspect Savery's Dodo-picture) and Stettin to 

 Stockholm, caught the last steamer for the Bothnian Gulf, 

 and reached Muonioniska just before the closing of the river 

 navigation. 



The following winter he passed much as he had the preceding 

 one. The breaking out of the Russian war indeed placed him 

 within a short distance of the enemy's territory, but fortunately 

 did not materially affect his movements, which, as regarded in- 

 cursions on the Finnish side of the frontier, were wisely over- 

 looked by the local authorities. Still great caution was necessary, 

 so as to give no possible excuse for any measures that might cir- 

 cumscribe his operations. In the spring of the next year, 1855, 

 he repeated his journey to Norway, and, leaving the Muonio and 

 adjoining valleys to be worked by people whom he had especially 

 instructed, he proceeded along the coast eastward of the North 

 Cape to Wadso. From this remote town he crossed the War- 

 anger Fjord to the outlet of the Patsjoki or Paswig river, ascend- 

 ing it until he reached the great Lake Enara, which had been the 

 locality previously assigned by too credulous collectors for many 

 a fabled rarity. He found its shores singularly destitute of any- 

 thing ornithological, but on the way there he was rewarded by 

 the sight of Wild Swans' nests. Returning to Wadso, he joined 

 Mr. W. H. Simpson and Mr. Alfred Newton, whose arrival 

 he had been for some weeks expecting, and in company with 



