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common than one and the same name being applied to 

 different birds in different districts. Even this very name 

 Ungilo is used for the Goosander in certain places on the 

 Upper Tornea river. 



" Concerning the egg of Ungilo I made every inquiry. 

 All the people who remembered it on the Muonio agreed 

 that it was much less than the Golden-e^^e's, and was liable 

 to be found in the same hole with eggs of that bird. As a 

 consequence of this popular belief, I often had dwarf eggs of 

 Sotka brought to me for Ungild's. From one trustworthy 

 man, Piko Haki, I heard that some ten years before he had 

 found a nest and taken the eggs on sale for eating to a 

 resident trader, who had asked him where he had got Hens' 

 eggs. Now Hens' eggs are unknown in the interior of the 

 country, where I was ; but at Uleaborg, where the trader 

 had been familiar with them, they are about the size of our 

 Bantam's eggs. This gave me the best indication I had yet 

 met with of the probable appearance of the egg ; and I told 

 my servant-lad Ludwig in confidence that, when we at length 

 should get Ungild's eggs, they would be very like Wigeon's, 

 though probably more white. Of course this was not to be 

 talked of, as it might lead to attempts at imposition. It is 

 possible that the small comparative size of the Ungild's 

 eggs, and the habit of the bird turning out the Golden-eye, 

 had made it little liked by the people, and that they used to 

 catch it on the eggs and kill it, as they do Hawk Owls and 

 Tengmalm's Owls. 



" In 1857 the clergyman of Muonioniska, Priest Liljeblad, 

 had been transferred to Sodankyla ; and in the spring of this 

 year an intelligent young man, Carl Leppajervi, went from 

 Muonioniska to be assistant schoolmaster with his former 

 teacher. I gave Carl strict charge to make every inquiry for 

 Uinilo in that part of the world and of travellers from Kemi 

 Trask. One day (the 30th July, 1857), as I passed by the 

 homestead of Regina's Calle, the famous steerer of the 

 Muonio Falls, there was given to me a wooden box, such as 

 is used in the country for carrying butter on a journey, 

 addressed ' To the English gentleman Joh Woleg in Muonio- 



