AMPELIS GARRULUS. 2i5 



wig hsLc] Konva-Rastas's^ eggs "quite sure." Arrived at Muoniovara, 

 11th September^ Ludwig shewed me the eggs and birds with tli(i 

 nests. The following I copy from his day-book : — 



" 5 June. — In the morning we began our journey to Kyro^ and in 

 [the course of] the day came we under Pallas-tunturi, and when we 

 came on the fell so we were there most of the whole night before we 

 got over it.^ On the 6th, about evening, we came to Sadio, and 

 straightway I met Mikel, and he said that Korwa-Rastas was there, 

 and that a little boy had found its nest, but there were no eggs yet. 

 Straightway went I to see after the nest, and I saw that it was an 

 old Koki's nest. Then said I to all the boys, of whom there were 

 seven, that we should begin to seek for a week at least [and] should 

 not leave off before we found it. So sought we the night till the 

 7th, but we found nothing ; but before it was noon, a boy, bight 

 Johan, met with a nest, and I went to see after it and there were two 

 eggs ; but I had some misgivings whether it was the right bird, for 

 the yellow which was at its tail's end looked white in the sunshine, 

 and I did not see the red on the wings, and the tuft w^hich was upon 

 the head seemed to me too short. But when I went in the evening 

 the sun had got low, so I saw that it was yellow at its tail's end : then 

 became I very glad, and I trowed surely that it was the right bird. 

 In the night Mikel found a Kapy-lintu's nest with one egg, and we 

 found another nest with Heiki, but there were no eggs yet in it. 



" The 8th was Sunday, and in the evening we went to Ala-Kyro ; 

 another pair of Silk-tails was there, but they seemed to have no good 

 abiding place. We sought indeed, and several others, the whole 

 night and till nearly noontide of the morrow, but we could not find 

 either theirs or a Kajjy-lintu's nest ; then I found that it would be 



best to seek Puna-kiiowi We had hitherto found during the 



whole journey only a Poufa-haukka's nest with three eggs. On the 

 11th we came again to Sadio, and I went to look after the Silk-taiPs 



nest, and there were five eggs * Then I caught the cock Silk-tail 



(but the hen I could not get) and the cock Kapy-lintu of the nest 



^ [Literally " Ear-Tlirusb," because of the feathers on the head standing up like 

 Squirrels' ears. — Ed.] 



^ [As Mr. Wolley wrote to me, the snow was still so deep that Ludwig had to 

 wade through it up to his middle. —Ed.] 



* " In Sadio, 11th June, I myself took a Silk-tail's nest, which we found on the 

 7th. The nest was four ells high in a little spruce, about one hundred fathoms 

 from the homestead in a little spruce-place on wet earth and marshy or moss-earth, 

 about twenty fathoms from Sadio-strand towards the south." (From another place 

 in Ludwig's papers.) 



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