100 Mr. A. Newton on Mr. J. WoUey's Discover^/ 



him that year; for, though another nest with five eggs was 

 taken for him by one of his most trusty collectors on an island, 

 Ajos-saari, in the Gulf of Bothnia, near Kemi-suu (the mouth of 

 the Kemi River), the finder was induced to part with it to a 

 Russian traveller for three silver rubles, " the doctor having 

 represented that Mr. Wolley had already as many as he wanted,^* 

 a statement certainly not in accordance with the facts ; for Mr. 

 Wolley had, in giving him a nest, promised that, if he had them 

 to spare the next year, he would transmit specimens of the eggs 

 to the museum at Helsingfors. This same person, whose zeal 

 might have been commendable had it been qualified by either 

 gratitude or good faith, previously informed Mr. Wolley that a 

 naturalist in the Finnish capital had for some time offered a 

 reward of fifty rubles (about £9) for a nest of the Waxwing, 

 and suggested that the Sardio lads were entitled to the prize : 

 whereupon Mr. Wolley immediately divided that sum (in addi- 

 tion to the some hundred dollars they had already received) 

 among all who were engaged in the glorious affair of the 7th of 

 June, 1856, and at the same time wrote to the University of 

 Helsingfors to say that he could not allow its authorities to pay 

 for his discovery. A brief notice of the booty acquired by Dr. 

 E. Nylanderwill be found in the Appendix to the last edition of 

 Professor Nilsson^s excellent work*, communicated to him by 

 Professor Alexander von Nordmann, who also furnished a more 

 detailed account to the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for the fol- 

 lowing year, illustrated with figures from the specimens thus 

 obtained f. 



The summer of 1858, when Mr. Wolley was with me in 

 Iceland, w^as " a great year for Waxwings." Not far from a 

 hundred and fifty nests were found by persons in his employ- 

 ment in Lapland, and some of them close to Muoniovara. It 

 seems, as nearly as I have been able to ascertain, that no less 

 than six hundred and sixty-six eggs were collected ; and more 

 than twenty more w^ere obtained by Herr Keitel of Berlin, who 

 happened, without I beheve any expectation of the luck that 

 was in store for him, to be that year on the Muonio River. A 



* Skand. Faun. Foglania, ed. 3, i. p. 5/1. 



t Journal fur Ornithologie, 1858, p. 307; 1859, pi. 1. 



