170 Mr. A. C. Chapman's Birds'' -Nesting 



full winter plumage. Further on a pair of Rough-legged 

 Buzzards had a nest, and were ''wailing'' from the crag. 

 The nest, placed, as usual, on a ledge, and lined Avith dry 

 grass, contained one egg completely congealed, and much of 

 the colour washed out. I had to warm it in water before it 

 would blow, although otherwise it was quite fresh. I got 

 to-day the first Brambling's nest, a beautiful structure, with 

 one very small egg. A Fieldfare's nest had six eggs, and 

 two Titlarks' nests had six and four eggs, fresh. CuckoDs 

 seemed pretty numerous. I shot some Golden Plovers to 

 eat, and was struck with their splendid adult plumage, 

 such as can seldom be obtained at any season of the year in 

 Northumberland. I observe also that the male Bramblings 

 obtained, in breeding-dress, on thp Dovre Fjeld in Norway 

 are not nearly so typically adult as those which we obtained 

 in East Finmark. 



To-day a Lap boy brought me a lovely nest with seven 

 eggs, badly incubated, of the Great Grey Shrike {Lanius 

 major ?) ; and here I may observe that, although I afterwards 

 obtained two more nests and eggs of this species, I was 

 never fortunate enough to get the bird. In all cases the 

 nests were found by the Laps and brought to me; and although 

 I invariably returned to the nesting-place immediately with 

 the Lap, I only once caught a glimpse of the bird, and then 

 I did not manage to secure her. This nest was placed in a 

 birch tree, about ten feet from the ground, and was made of 

 white grass, profusely lined with the white feathers of the 

 Willow-Grouse, with a few binding twigs of birch. 



June 14th. A White Wagtail {MotaciUa alba) had its nest 

 under the turf of the roof of our dwelling, and contained six 

 fresh eggs ; the nest was lined with greyish- white reindeer- 

 hair. Two nests of the Redwing contained five and six eggs ; 

 one of them was on the ground in a bank, entirely concealed 

 by an overhanging juniper bush, and the eggs were much incu- 

 bated. Although the fell-lakes were still completely frozen, 

 Arctic Terns {Sterna macrura) were hovering over some of 

 them, and on two small islands which we reached by walking 

 across the ice we found two nests, each with two eggs. A 



