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§ 528. ^'/^re^.— Kiwi-luoma, Salmo-jarwi, East Bothnia. 14 

 April, 1857. 



Found on a cliff about a quarter of a mile from Sarki-pahta, the 

 Tuesday aher Padsiaisen [Easter], by Simon Peter, who brought 

 them to Muoniovara the Monday following, as I noted at the time. 

 The Huuhkaja Avhich he saw had ears—" smallish ears/' The same 

 pair of bu'ds as last year's nests [§ 527, and probably § 526], though 

 they had rather shifted their quarters. 



[Several of the eggs laid by the Salmo-jarwi Eagle-Owl have the sheU very 

 coarse-grained ; and this is particularly the case in one of the above lot.] 



§ 529. r//re^.— iEkas-korkion-pahta, East Bothnia. 13 May, 

 1856. 



Brought by Anders Wassara, on the 18th May. He says that he 

 saw the bird, and that it was Korwa-Huuhkaja [Eared Huuhkaja] . His 

 brother found the nest on the sand under the roots, or just in the 

 spot where the roots had been, of an overturned tree, on a steep 

 hill-side near a force. There are small cliffs or rocks by the river 



iEkas-joki. 



The following year the nest of this pair of Eagle-Owls was found 

 by the same lad in a similar site, " on the ground, against the up- 

 turned roots of a tree facing the south, on the side of a dell, where he 

 had often heard the birds cry ' hugh, hugh.' He was sure it was the 

 Eared Huuhkaja, though he did not see it very distinctly as it flew 

 away. No nest— a mere slight hoUow. The bird deserted the two 

 eggs, which were quite fresh. The place was about a quarter of a 

 mile (Swedish) to the east of iBkas-jarwi." 



[The eggs of 1857 are in the collections of Sir W. Milner and ISIr. Braik- 

 enridge.] 



[§ 530. One.—lSbS. Mr. J. H. Gurney's Menagerie. 



This is the first egg laid by the female of a pair of birds bred by Mr. Edward 

 Fountame, whose remarkable success in propagating this fine species in con- 

 finement has been recorded by himself in ' The Ibis,' vol. i. pp. 2/3-2/5.J 



[§ 531. Two.—Ubl. Mr. J. H. Gurney's Menagerie. 



These from the same bird as the last (§ 530). Tliough she lays and sits 

 every year, she has not hitherto (1H58) produced any offspring.] 



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