166 NYCTALE TENGMALMI. 



§ 539. One. — Tomi-koski, Tepasto, Kemi Lappmark. 18 May, 



1858. 



Found as above by Varan Heiki on the Ounas-joki, in a hole made 

 by Ficus martius. 



§ 540. One. — ^Wassara, Kemi Lappmark. 21 May, 1858. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 19th June, by one of the Wassara lads. 

 He said that it was Palokarki \_Picus martius], and found as above, a 

 fathom or two from the ground ; and that he saw the bird, which was 

 red on the head, and elsewhere black on the body. 



[The above-mentioned egg is certain!}^ not that of Pirns martius, as the 

 finder thought, tliough I have no reason to doubt his word that he saw such 

 a bird at or near the nest. It is just one of those cases of mistaken identity as 

 to the parentage of an egg which are constantly occuiTing, and which are so 

 annojdng to the oologist ; but I have scarcely any hesitation in placing the 

 specimen in my series of Nyctale tengmalmi.l 



§ 541. One. — Jua-rowa, Sarki-jarwi, East Bothnia. 2 Jmie, 

 1858. "With bird." 



Brought to Muoniovara, with the bird, 7th June, by Piko Heiki. 

 The nest, with four eggs, was found as above in a hole made by Picus 

 martius in a Scotch fir, about a fathom and a half high. Half a mile 

 [Swedish] west of Sarki-jarwi. 



[_^h^2. Four. — -Aha-vaara, Kemi Lappmark. 26-31 May, 

 1861. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 25th June, having been found as above by Piety 

 Kyro in an im (nest-box).] 



[§ 543. Four. — Kippari-saari-ranta, Muotka-jiirwi, Enontekis 

 Lappmark. June 1861. 



Brought to Muoniovaara 1st July, having been found as above about four 

 weeks previously. These eggs are extremely small (one of them measuring 

 only 1'1.3 inch by -97 inch), so that I wrote to Lapland for further inquiries to 

 be made of the finder respecting them. In reply I heard that he thought the 

 bird was like any other Pilxku Pissi {Nyctale tenymalmi). There was no nest in 

 the same hole in 1862. Mr. Wolley never obtained any authentic trace of the 

 occurrence of Glaucidium passcrinum in Lapland ; but it was one of the birds 

 for which he was always on the look-out.] 



