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of many miles, inquiring of the inhabitants respecting the 

 birds of the district, and engaging their services for the 

 ensuing spring. INIeanwhile his boxes of eggs arrived in 

 England, and the reception by the public of a small portion 

 of them, submitted to sale by the late Mr. J. C. Stevens, 

 was very encouraging to his future labours — genuine eggs of 

 the Jack Snipe, Broad-billed Sandpiper, and other birds it 

 had never previously been in the poAver of British, or 

 probably of foreign, collectors to procure. Towards the 

 spring he crossed the Kjolen Mountains with reindeer into 

 Norway, and proceeded by sea from Tromsoe to Hammer- 

 fest, whence in a short time he returned with the last snow 

 to his headquarters by way of Kantokeino, near which place 

 he successfully scaled a dangerous rock for a nest of the 

 Gyrfalcon. Arrived at Muonioniska, he soon afterwards 

 had the opportunities of taking the eggs of the Crane which 

 he has so vividly described in these pages ('Ibis/ 1859, 

 p. 191), and a few days more saw him again 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 

 collectors. On his return to Muonioniska, he stayed there 

 only long enough to ascertain the particulars of the col- 

 lections Avhich had accumulated for him, and was off again, 

 this time for England, which he reached in August. De- 

 positing his treasures, including eggs of the Shore-Lark, 

 Siberian Jay, Spotted Redshank, Temminck^s Stint, and 

 Little White-fronted Groose, with the same friends as befoi'e, 

 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 Savcry^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 pre- 

 ceding one. The brcakino- out of the Russian war indeed 



