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(Plate K, p. 269). No great success attended him here; but on his 

 voyage back, in circumstances of wliich a thrilling account was 

 communicated to Mr. Hewitson^s pages (Eggs of Brit. Birds, ed. 3, 

 ii. pp. 427-429), Wolley met with rather better fortune, though he 

 obtained little else than the eggs of a species (the Scaup-Duck) 

 which was already known to collectors. On his return to Muonio- 

 vara he stayed there only long enough to ascertain the particulars of 

 the collections which had accumulated for him, and was oft' again — 

 this time for England, which he reached in August. Depositing 

 with me his treasures — including eggs of Rough-legged Buzzard, 

 Hawk-Owl, Shore-Lark, Siberian Jay (§ 2600), Black Eedshatik 

 (certainly obtained for the first time). Bar-tailed Godwit, and Little 

 White-fronted Goose — he departed in a few weeks a second time for 

 the North, and, travelling by way of Berlin (where he did not omit 

 to inspect Savery's Dodo-picture) and Stettin to Stockholm *, caught 

 the last steamer for the Bothnian Gulf, and reached Muoniovara just 

 before the closing of the river-navigation. 



The following winter he passed much as he had the preceding 

 one. The breaking-out of the Russian war had indeed placed him on 

 the verge of an enemy's territory, which he was again and again 

 invading ; but fortunately it did not materially affect his movements, 

 which, as regarded incursions on the Finnish side of the frontier- 

 river, were, though doubtless closely watched, wisely overlooked by 

 the local authorities. Still great caution was needed, so as to give no 

 possible excuse for any measures that might circumscribe his opera- 

 tions or even endanger his liberty. In the spring of the next year 

 (1855) he repeated his journey to Norway ; and leaving the Muonio 

 and adjoining valley to be worked by Ludwig and others whom he had 

 especially instructed, Wolley proceeded along the coast of Finmark, 

 eastward of the North Cape, to Vadso. From that town he crossed 

 the Varanger Fjord to the outlet of the Patsjoki or Pasvig river, 

 ascending it till he reached the great Lake Enara, Avhich had been 

 the locality previously assigned by too credulous collectors for many 

 a rarity. He found its shores singularly destitute of anything 

 ornithological ; but on the way thither he was rewarded by the sight 



* Owing to an outbreak of cholera in England, the route by Gottenburg was 

 obstructed by quarantine regulations. 



