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On the 7th of September^ three Waxwing's eggs, under the name 

 of Kukhaiuen, were brought from Muotka-jarwi. * 



On the 20th of September, Piko Heiki, who was with Ludwig when 

 he took the nest, told me that where he lives at Siirki-jlirwi he had, 

 within a week, heard a small flock, five or six in number, of the same 

 bird. Their cry called his attention to the birds ; he tried to get 

 nearer to them, but they were very shy. This 21st of September 1 

 have been with Piko Heiki and Ludwig up the hill at Muoniovaara, 

 that they might point out to me exactly what kind of place the nest 

 was in. It appears that it was on the east bank of the Ouuas-joki, 

 some four hundred yards from the river, on the western slope of a 

 low hill, about fifty fathoms to the south-west of Sardio Nybyggning ; 

 the ground rather marshy, that is with large tussocks of moss, bog- 



* These were brought to Ludwig by Muotka-jarwi Elias's boy. Ludwig asked 

 what they were. Answer. "Kukhainen" [Pe)-iso7-eus infaiistus]. Q. " When taken ? ' 

 A. " Heina Kua" (8th July). Q. " How do you remember? " A. "It was two 

 days before a legal summons at our place." Q. "Where was the nest? " A. " In 

 a birch." Q. " Did you take it yourself?" A. " No, I gave my sister one riks- 

 dollar riks-geld for them." The boy said the young inside had already made holes 

 in the eggs, and he brought them ready blown, but two of them badly cracked. I 

 have mended and wi-itten upon one. The membrane still inside the shells. They 

 so exactly resemble the other Waxwing's eggs, and are so unlike any other egg 

 known up here, that I cannot have a shadow of doubt as to the species. 



27th January, 1857. Maria Lana^, aged twenty- two, Elias's daughter, of Muotka- 

 jarwi, is now hei'e. She says the eggs, four in number, which she thought were 

 Kukhainen, were a fathom and a half up in a birch tree, in a nest made of lichen 

 (reindeer and tree-bair) and bents, and at the bottom of it a little rotten wood, no 

 feathers inside, or if so only one or two large ones. It was just by the road, about 

 a mile [Swedish] or a little more li'om Muotka-jarwi. She heard the bird fly oft^ 

 but could not see it. She was on her way from Hetta. There were Scotch fir trees 

 also near. She put the eggs in a glove. In the autumn, as she was going to fetch 

 a bull from Hetta, she saw that the nest had fallen to the ground. This evening 

 she does not recognize a skin of Kapy-lintu \_Corythus emichator'], but at once 

 names a Korwa-hntu [Ampelis (/arridus']. She says decidedly that the nest was 

 in a birch. She promises to collect eggs next summer, but cannot bring them at 

 Midsummer because (after some hesitation) she is going to search for some hidden 

 silver she knows of in the night. Her mother taught her the names of all birds. 

 These eggs were found late in the year towards Jacobin aika (25th July) she thinks. 

 There were young inside. There were four eggs in the nest. She has been told 

 that Kukhainen has two broods in the year. She has never received any messages 

 that I wished to see her. 



^ [Mr. WoUey, in his letter to me of 14th September, 185G, called this woman a 

 *' little girl ", a statement I quoted in the account I gave in * The Ibis' (18G1, p. 96), 

 but it appears that he had not then seen or before heard of her. The egg he men- 

 tions as having mended was sold at Mr. Stevens's, 12th May, 1857, to Mr. H. F. 

 Walter; the other two have been given to the Norwicli and British Museums 

 rciJ^K'ctively. — Ed .] 



