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which Mikel had found. Then we went to the nest which we found, 

 but there was as yet only one egg, so I must leave it. Then I made 

 a box of thick wood and laid the eggs therein 



''16th. — 1 blew the eggs and stuffed the Silk-tail SLndKapy-liniu. . . . 



" 29th. — Sadio Mikel came with many Silk-tails' and Kapy-lintu's 

 eggs and others, and then I blew the eggs.'' 



Whilst I examined these eggs/ and made my boxes ready for 

 England, from the 11th to the 20th of September, Ludwig told me 

 again and again the story of the Sidensvans. He said that, in his 

 first letter he meant to say that the bird sat on a high tree, not that 

 the nest was in such ; that he felt some misgivings as to whether it 

 really was the right bird ; that the Sardio lads thought it was, for 

 their grandfather had described to them formerly the Korwa-Rastas. 

 They were not sure that they had ever before seen it, though they 

 know most birds, but one of them thought he had once found a nest 

 some years before. Ludwig says the birds made a remarkable singing 

 noise, and watched people closely ; but he never saw more than one 

 at the nest at a time. They raised their crests considerably, always 

 more than in the picture, sometimes even so that they came forwards. 

 When at last Ludwig compared the bird with one of Newton's 

 pictures on Martin Piety's return from Sodankyla he saw with 

 certainty that it was the same bird. They (Ludwig ?) found a nest 

 which appeared to be a last year's Sidensvans's, and it seems to me 

 upon examination that it is such. The Sardio lads at first were very 

 lazy and sleepy, but once roused from their dirt they worked well. 



On the 5th of August, Kyro Niku brought two young Korwa-Rastas 

 dead, which he had caught that day just south of Pallas-tunturi. 

 One of them Ludwig stuffed, the other was spoiled. The former has 

 most of the characteristics of the old bird, even the " wax " on the 

 wing, but it is without the black patch under the chin, and has the 

 under side of a neutral colour with white streaks or patches, owing 

 to the sides of the feathers being lighter-coloured than the middle 

 (see more detailed description by J. W. [P. Z. S. 1857, p. 56]). 

 Niku said there were five young which could just fly, so that he 

 could only catch two. 



On the 3rd of July, Sallanki Johan brought some Thrush's eggs 

 with a dried Korwa-Rastas, which he said he had shot from the nest. 

 He had doubtless heard that Ludwig had said the true eggs were 

 most like those of Sawi-Rastas [Song-Thrush] . 



' [I have had all the eggs of the first nest figured (Tab. x. figg. 1-5). — Ed.] 



