104 Mr. A. Newton o?i Mr. J. Wolley's Discovery 



ever keeping out of gunshot except two, which came close round 

 me, and both of which I shot. I then sat down and imitated, as 

 well as I could, the call of the old birds. I was soon rewarded 

 for my trouble by a young one coming out of a Blueberry bush 

 close by and calling lustily. Heikel and I gave chase, and 

 secured him. Granberg, who had heard my two shots, then 

 coming up, we commenced a diligent search for the other three 

 young ones, but had to give it up as hopeless, owing to the 

 thickness of the under-scrub. I then climbed up again and 

 took the nest away carefully, so as to preserve the shape, and ta 

 my great delight found one egg in it. We hunted for several 

 hours in the higher part of the island for another nest ; but, 

 although we saw about nine old birds, we did not succeed in 

 finding another nest. We did not shoot any more, hoping to 

 find nests there at some future period. 



" We returned to Uleaborg the same evening, when I skinned 

 my birds. We ought to have made an equal division of the 

 spoil, but neither Granberg nor Heikel would hear of any division ; 

 consequently! have still two old birds and two young ones, besides 

 the nest and egg, in my possession. I regret to say I did not 

 look to see what the young birds had been fed upon ; but when I 

 took the nest, I found one or two of last year's dried cranberries 

 in it. 



" I arranged with Mr. Granberg for him to go to Sandon in 

 1859 (for we had kept it secret in the town as to where we had 

 found the nest) to see if he could find another nest ; but he 

 wrote to me that, the autumn after we had been there, the chief 

 portion of the forest in Sandon had been consumed by fire, and 

 that it was therefore useless to go there. ^' 



I myself had the pleasure of inspecting Mr. Dresser's speci- 

 mens in 1859 at Mr. Leadbeater's, and I believe I am hardly 

 divulging any confidence when I say they have formed the sub- 

 ject of a beautiful picture, executed under Mr. Gould's superin- 

 tendence, which I trust will before long be rendered more acces- 

 sible to the public. 



In 1859 the Waxwing bred, but in no great numbers, in the 

 Muonioniska and Kittila districts. Though much soi;ght for, not 

 more than forty-six eggs were obtained by Mr. Wollcy's collectors. 



