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in a broad-topped tree. I pointed out the spot to Josa, and, as he 

 found, correctly. He started, and in the course of the night reached 

 the marsh across which it was. A large, very thick tree, and on the 

 trunk puu merki [timber-marks], now filled with turpentine, and 

 probably of the last year, made by the Mudos-lombola people. He 

 climbed up with my irons, and said the inside of the nest was easy 

 to come at, owing to the breadth of the tree-top. Anton and Ludwig 

 had seen the bird flying in that direction in 1856. The eggs were 

 perhaps two days incubated, the bird could hardly have been here 

 above a fortnight. Heiki thought the nest had probably been pre- 

 pared the preceding summer ^ 



§ 103. Three. — Lebeme-lombola-vaara, Lapland, 18-20 May, 

 1858. 



O. W. tab. vii. fig. 6. 



Brought from Kihlangi, 23rd May, by a boy, having been found as 

 above by his father. 



§ 104. Three. — Wuondis-jarwi, Enontekis Lappmark, 1858. 



Brought by Heiki, 6th June, from Johan Sieppi ; found in a Scotch 

 fir, about twelve fathoms high. The nest was at the top of the tree, 

 about three-eighths of a mile (Swedish) to the north-east of Sieppi. 



§ 105. Two. — Kielisen-palla, Enontekis Lappmark, 28 May, 



1858. 



Brought at the same time as the last, from the same man, having 



1 [The " great Seita stone," mentioned above, is a huge boulder of gneiss, l\ang 

 in the forest on Muoniovaara, and, before the conversion of the Lapps to Chris- 

 tianity, was used by them as a place of offering, whereon some of the spoils of the 

 chase were from time to time deposited, in token of thanksgiving. (Cf. Scheifer, 

 ' Lapponia, &c.,' Francofurti, 1673, capp. ix. x.) Access to the top seems to have 

 been gained by means of the trimk of a tree, in which notches were cut to serve 

 as steps ; and this rude ladder was still in existence, though much decayed at the 

 lower end, when I made the sketch fi-om which Mr. Jmy's plate (tab. A) is taken. 

 The space immediately around has been long ago cleared of trees, excepting the 

 two large Scotch firs standing close to the altar. These, however, had been 

 stripped of their bark to the height of some ten feet, and were dead ; their lower 

 branches being plentifully hung with tresses of the luppu, or " tree-hair " (Lichen 

 harbatus or L.jubatus, I believe). But numerous yoimg firs were springing up 

 luxm'iantly on every side. This stone now bears an inscription in Runic charac- 

 ters. — Ed.] 



