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shed into Swedish Lapland_, and so in boats down the Muonio 

 River to Muoniovara itself. 



Central Lapland is by no means a bad place wherein to 

 spend the latter part of summer^ when you have good 

 quarters in a well-to-do Swedish farmer's house, and enjoy 

 the run of all those numerous buildings which constitute the 

 " gaard/^ or square, within whose precincts everything is 

 enclosed. The rooms are appropriate, the beds &c. most 

 scrupulously clean, and, if the commons are rather short, 

 this acts as an incentive to the sportsman to increase his 

 efforts to supply the larder. There are grayling in the 

 Muonio, anxious to take fly or spoon ; ducks, and especially 

 Wigeon, in the streams and lakelets ; Willow-Grouse on the 

 margins of the woods ; and Capercaillies in the spiuce-dells. 

 In the pursuit of ducks the native " Lapp dog " was found 

 very useful, as he could dive in most approved fashion after 

 a winged bird : it was really wonderful to watch the dog and 

 the duck in the evolutions of the subaqueous chase. Nor was 

 the climate at all disagreeable, though towards the beginning 

 of September there was somewhat of a '^Mjite''^ in tlie air. 



The homeward journey began on the 8th of September^ 

 and the party reached Hull early in October, by way of 

 Ilaparanda, Stockholm, and Gothenbui'g. 



In the spring of 1856 John Wolley induced Simpson 

 to join him in an expedition to the Isle of Gland, in the 

 Baltic, in quest of the Little Gull, supposed to breed there, 

 but this turned out to be the Black-headed Gull, and so far 

 the expedition was a failure. Nevertheless, a most interest- 

 ing campaign Avas carried on in the watery isle and adjacent 

 coast of Sweden — some of the results being recorded in 

 ' The Ibis ' (see " Narrative of the Discovery of some Nests 

 of the Black Woodpecker in Sweden,^' Ibis, vol. i. p. 264) 

 and in the ' Ootheca Wolleyana.' 



Probably the most enjoyable e.vcursion in which Simpson 

 shared was that undertaken by Tristram and Salvin in 

 the year 1857. The introduction was effected through 

 the good offices of Alfred Newton ; and Salvin and Simpson 

 started together from London early in February to join 



