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taken by him, with my assistance, on the 17th. It was in a very 

 tall and branchless Scotch fir. He went up with my iron claws, 

 assisted by a rope. The birds made stoops as he was at the nest, 

 but did not come very close. I would not have him take the eggs 

 till I had got an old bird, both of which were wailing near. I was 

 covered up in a hut of fir-branches. The bird settled under the 

 nest, and I missed ; but it came again, and died with a second shot. 

 Lassie went up again, and lowered the eggs in my tin. They were 

 quite fresh. The nest was large, and lined with hair-like lichen 

 and grass. The bird shot was a hen, and had a half-grown egg- 

 yelk inside. 



§ 343. 0^^.— Piko-viksi, West Bothnia, 18 May, 1848. 



Out of four from a nest near Viksi-jarwi, in an old rotten tree, 

 which was cut down by Lassie Johann of Muonio-alusta. He found 

 the nest last autumn, as he was squirrel-shooting. The eggs a day 

 or two sat on. They fell on a soft place in the moss. 



§ 344. Three. — Kangos-jarwi, East Bothnia, 21 May, 1854. 



Three eggs of a Buzzard, no doubt Rough-legged, found by Nils 

 Suiki, a Lapp, between Kangos-jarwi and Salmo-jarwi, and brought 

 to Ludwig the 3rd of June. They were rotten. Two of them are 

 not unlike Cormorants' in the shell. 



^ 345. i^o?^/-.— Rowa, East Bothnia, 27 May, 1854. "Bird 

 shot." 



Brought by Punsi's lads to Ludwig, 3rd June, with the feet of one 

 of the old birds. I must here make a memorandum, that I have let 

 no one know (except perhaps Ludwig) that 1 prefer Rough-legged feet. 

 I have promised the same pay for any Buzzards' feet, but nothing 

 but Rough-legged have yet come (30th June, 1854). 



§ 346. Four. — Sarki-jarwi, Salmo-jarwi, East Bothnia, 29 May, 

 1854. 



Brought to Ludwig, 3rd June, by Wassara the Lapp's lads, of 

 whom several were bird's-nesting on the same day. Ludwig says 



