218 A^rrELis garrulus. 



bilberry, alpine birclij and so forth ; the trees scattered about so as 

 to leave wide sunny interspaces. The nest was in a small spruce, 

 about twenty feet long, without branches near the bottom, and only 

 some ten inches in circumference at, say, five feet from the ground, 

 i. e. scarcely so thick as a man^s arm, so that Ludwig in climbing up 

 was afraid that he should bend or shake it so much as to make the 

 eggs fall out. It was not vigorous and thick-leaved, but with a few 

 unhealthy branches, the longest of which might be nearly a yard 

 long. They were covered with tree-hair lichen, and on one of the 

 longest but not lowest of them, on the west side of the tree, the nest 

 was placed at about a fathom and a half from the ground. It was 

 just where several twigs or divisions of the branch made a platform, 

 at such a convenient distance from the bole of the tree that a person 

 climbing up or turning his face a little on one side could have the 

 eggs just before his eyes — that would be some eighteen inches from 

 tiie bole. It seemed to Ileiki like a Thrushes nest in the way it was 

 built up without supports at the side, and he wondered why the bird 

 had not contrived to place it more under the shelter of another 

 branch. To a man underneath, the quantity of tree-liehen (of which 

 also the nest is chiefly made) prevented its being conspicuous, and 

 the dead spruce-twigs on its outside similar to many networks of the 

 same kind of twigs on this unhealthy tree. But from the side, as 

 the branch was quite open, the nest was visible enough to any one 

 looking for it — even from some distance. 



28th September. — Martin Piety, now here, says that he remembers 

 some twenty years ago once seeing a Waxwing, and once since he has 

 seen or heard one, but it is ten years ago. This year, on the other 

 hand, he has often seen them : — once at Ketto-mella, ten in the 

 beginning of September; again in the middle of August, six to the 

 west of Ounas-tuuiuri flying from the north, about two miles and a 

 half within the fir limit. He also saw them with young at Ketto- 

 mella earlier in the summer. ^ In the egg-time he saw a pair 



' [It is probably to these young that the following note refers : — 

 "8th March, ]8.)7. — Two days ago Martin Piety was here bringing a ^Sb/yw/j 

 [Le7nmus 7iorvefficus'] and the nest of Sidensvans he ha,d before told me of, from 

 which he saw the young Hy. It is very carefully brought with the branch. He 

 says that it was fully two fathoms from the ground, and that the spot where the 

 nest was placed was about a fathom from the bole of the tree — a large Scotch fir. 

 The nest is placed in a good cup formed by the branch, under which there hangs a 

 good deal of hippu (tree-hair), and is built as usual of twigs and luppu with a little 

 rein-moss. Amongst the luppu outside but not belonging to the nest is a feather, 

 evidently, from its pinky colour, a Waxwing's." 



This nest was sent, :24th August, 1857, by the hands of Cand. Med. Nylauder, to 

 the Museum at Hrlsingfors, as a gift frdui Mr. Wolley. — Ed.] 



