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egg cracked — wlien and how I could not exactly make out. I blew 

 and mended it. Looking at it afterwards, I found that where the 

 colour was thick it had a tendency to chip off. The contents were 

 perfectly fresh, and had the usual flavour of Eagle's eggs. 



B. One.— 22 April, 1857. " J. W." 



O. W, tab. iii. fig. 3. 



Brought to Muoniovara by Reiki's wife, 25th April, with the egg of 

 Anser minutus, which, as above stated, I had left in the nest, and 

 blown at once by me. It seemed to have been two or three days at 

 least sat on. " J. W." as I saw the bird at the nest, not " ipse " as 

 on the other egg. 15th May, Apo brought word from Heiki, who was 

 ill, that the egg was taken 22nd April ; he also said that the Goose's 

 egg was cracked in the nest. 



§ 47. T^iw.— Argyllshire, 10 April, 1857. 



O. W. tab. ii. fig. 4. 



Received for Mr. WoUey by Mr. Edward Newton in the summer 

 of 1857, with a short statement of when and where they were taken. 

 There were only these two eggs in the nest, which was in a rock, and 

 does not seem to have belonged to any of the birds mentioned before 

 in these pages. 



[\ 48. ^Z'^ra.— Sutherlandshire. 22 April, 1859. 



Sent to me by a correspondent, who states that they were from tlie same 

 nest. The hen bii-d was well Imown to have bred for the preceding ten or 

 twelve years in one of two places alternately. In 1856 her mate was killed 

 and the eggs taken, but by whom he was not able to learn. He also adds, 



its neighbom-s, and is only some ten paces from the tree that formerly had the nest, 

 felled in 1854. That tree was said to be more difficult to climb than this, which 

 is indeed very easy. The nest may be five fathoms from the gi-oimd, and a ftithom 

 and a half from the top of the tree, which last is bushy, and almost like a " wind 

 nest." The nest was on the south-east side of the tree, and had snow over it, on 

 the top of which were a good many newly-broken sprigs of Scotch Fir, showing 

 that the birds were repairing it. It seemed to be a considerable mass in deptli, 

 but not in breadth, made chiefly of small sticks. The trees about it grew pretty 

 close, and it was not visible from the valley. To it may probably belong the 

 Eagles that frequent OUos-tuntui'i, though it is some distance oft'. The rowa has 

 two heads ; the nest was on that nearest Sai'ki-lombola. We saw nothing of the 

 birds. [The term roiva, as used about Muonioniska, signifies, I believe, a rounded 

 hill, more or less wooded, and of moderate height. — Ed.] 



