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placed him within a short distance of the enemy's territory^ 

 ^)ut fortunately did not materially affect his movements, 

 which^ as regarded incnrsions on the Finnish side of the 

 frontier, were wisely overlooked by the local anthorities. 

 Still, great caution was necessary, so as to give no possible 

 excuse for any measures that might circumscribe his 

 operations. In the spring of the next year, 1855, he 

 repeated his journey to Norway, and, leaving the Muonio 

 and adjoining valleys to be worked by people whom he had 

 especially instructed, he proceeded along the coast eastward 

 of the North Cape to Wadso. From this remote town he 

 crossed the Waranger Fjord to the outlet of the Patsjoki or 

 Paswig river, ascending it until he reached the great Lake 

 Enara, which had been the locality previously assigned by 

 too credulous collectors for many a fabled rarity. He found 

 its shores singularly destitute of anything ornithological, but 

 on the way there he was rewarded by the sight of Wild 

 Swans' nests. Heturning to Wadso, he joined Mr. W. H. 

 Simpson and Mr. Alfred Newton, whose arrival he had been 

 for many Aveeks expecting, and in company with those gentle- 

 men he continued the remainder of the summer, exploring 

 the shores of the Waranger Fjord and lower district of the 

 Tana. They then proceeded by the coast to the Lyngen 

 Fjord, and crossed to Kilpisjarvi. at which famous lake 

 boats were waiting to take them to Muonioniska. After a 

 month's delay here, principally enlivened by the discovery of 

 some nests of the Pine Grosbeak, the party returned to 

 England by the usual route. 



The winter of 1855-6 Wolley spent at home. In the 

 following spring he set out with Mr. Simpson for the Baltic, 

 and passed the egging season chiefly in the island of ffiland 

 and on the adjacent coast of Sweden. Mr. Simpson's 

 principal success in this expedition has been already recorded 

 by him in the pages of this Journal ('Ibis/ 1859, p. 264), 

 and in his narrative of it he attributes to Wolley's suggestions 

 the chief results. Wolley himself was rather led away from 

 the living birds to pay attention to the barroAvs, stone-circles 

 and other relics of a former age with which QEland in particular 



