214 AMPELIS GARRULUS. 



In the montli of August I received at Stockholm^ (or at Calmar) a 

 letter from Ludwig Knoblock from which the following [translation] 



is extracted :- 



" Miioniovara, 22 June, 1856. 



" Good Sir, .... I must now first report on my Kyro-journey. 

 On the 6th June I came with Piko Heiki to Sadio, and straightway 

 when I came thither I got to hear that a pair of Silk-tails was there, and 

 that one of the Sadio boys had found a this year's Koki's [Perisoreus 

 infaustus] nest and that they thought it was a Silk- tail's, but it had 

 not yet laid eggs. I was straightway to see after the nest, and I 

 said that now shall we, so many as we are, begin to seek and we shall 

 seek almost a week, and that we shall not end before we find it. 

 We sought the whole night and found nothing, but before it became 

 midday on the morrow, a boy hight Johan met with a nest in which 

 were two eggs, and the bird sat near the nest on a high tree. After 

 three flays there were five eggs in it, and so I snared the bird, and saw 

 it was just the same as in my picture \ Now must my master be quite 

 sure of this, that he has Silk-tails' eggs here. Of Kapy-lintu [^Cory- 

 thus enucleato?''] we found a nest, and Sadio Mikel found a second : 

 many nests did we find with the Sadio boys, but there were no eggs 

 yet .... I was very glad that Silk-tail's nest has been found, but yet 

 more so shall I be when I have found it myself. 



" Ludwig Knoblock." 



On the 6th September I received at Haparanda a letter from 

 Ludwig of which the following are [translated] extracts : — 



" Muoniovara, 22 June, 1856. 



'^ But now shall I tell little of my Kyro-journey (of which 



I told more in my letter to Stockholm) than that I got the Silk-tail 

 with five eggs thence I thought much about finding the Silk- 

 tail in Kyro, but much pleasanter would it have been if I had found 



the nest myself. I open this letter the evening after [I wrote 



it]. Sadio Mikel has now brought four nests of the Silk-tail with 

 twenty-one eggs . . . . ; they had not yet begun, most of them, to lay 

 eggs when I was there . . . . ; there is no want now of the Silk-tail's 



eggs most humbly, 



" L. M. K." 



On my way up the river I met Keimio Johan, who said that Lud- 



^ [This was one of several coloured sketches sent to Mr. WoUey by Mr. Hewitson 

 and myself to assist him in making known his wants to the people. — Ed.] 



