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of Wild Swans' nests (Plate I). Returning to Vadso, lie joined 

 Mr. W. H. Simpson (now Hudleston) and myself, whose arrival he had 

 been expecting for some weeks ; and we continued in company for 

 the rest of the summer, exploring the shores of the Varanger Fjord 

 and lower district of the Tana. Of tlie rarer Limicola and Laridee, 

 with which the fancy of some Scandinavian ornithologists had 

 peopled this remote portion of Norway, not one was to be found ; 

 but it was some consolation to see Hocks of Steller's Duck (thougb 

 all were in immature plumage) and to discover nests of the Red- 

 throated Pipit (§§ 1912-1947), which so many authors had regarded 

 as a doubtful species. The season for eggs being over, we proceeded 

 by the coast to Skibotn on the Lyngen Fjord, and crossed the 

 mountains to Kilpisjiirvi , at which famous lake boats were, by 

 WoUey's care, waiting to take us down the river to Muoniovara^. 

 After a month's sojourn there, for Wolley had vast collections 

 to receive and numerous collectors to question, though there was 

 only one novelty to record — eggs of the Pine-Grosbeak (§§ 2249, 

 2250), — we returned to England by the usual route of Haparanda 

 and Stockholm, and Wolley spent the next six months at home. 



In the spring of 1856 Wolley set out with Mr. Hudleston for the 

 Baltic, and passed the egging-season chiefly in the islands of CEIand 

 and Gottland, and on the adjacent coast of Sweden, expecting, on the 

 faith of information he had received at Gotteuburg, to obtain some 

 great prizes; but he found it to be untrue, and his chief success 

 Avas the nest of a Roller (§662). Mr. Hudleston, however, was 

 more fortunate ; and the interesting narrative of his taking a Great 

 Black Woodpecker's nest (§ 596) may be read in the following 

 pages, to which, with his permission, it has been transferred from 



* We had overstayed our time in East Fiumark by a fortnight, and the four 

 men -nho had brought the boats up to Ivilpisjarvi, the shores of which were 

 uninhabited, had to separate and seek provisions as they best could. Two of 

 them, one being Nieniin Apoo, before mentioned, came across and met us at 

 Skibotn in Norway ; the other two, of whom one was Ludwig, taking the smaller 

 boat, retired upon JMukkauoma, the most northern settlement in Sweden, leaving 

 the larger boat by the lake-side for us. It was a never-to-be-forgotten moment 

 ■when we stepped on board her and floated on that "lonely mountain mere." An 

 admirable account of our transit, by Mr. Hudleston, was published in ' Eraser's 

 Magazine ' for April 1856 (vol. liii. pp. .370-394). 



