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between Yli- and Ala-Kyro. Also he saw a cock bird in Kala-maa, 

 but could not find the nest. He observed this spring that they flew 

 up in the air and came and sat in the same spot from which they had 

 flown — he thought in play, but perhaps they were catching insects. 

 He is certain they were not about Sodankyla or Kittila, nor did more 

 than two persons know them, though he made very careful enquiries, 

 and found that those who were woodmen knew other birds. 



2nd November. — Sardio Michael and Johan being now at Muonio- 

 vara, the latter [the finder] thus describes this nest. It was in a 

 jdnko autto [marshy open space] . The birds often flew over their house, 

 North and South, so they knew in what direction the nest should be. 

 The tree was a little thin spruce, not so thick as a roofing tree 

 {malka), and bare at the bottom. The nest was more than a fathom 

 from the ground, ou the west side, about half an ell from the bole or 

 a little over. The branch was close-twigged {snkia). They found 

 the whereabouts of the nest by the voice of the bird. The birds are 

 oftenest seen flying ; they sometimes sat in the fields. He also re- 

 members seeing one on the ground in the wood, but it sits on the tree- 

 top oftenest. He once saw a bird fly back to the same place, but he 

 found no nest. They first saw Korwa-Rastas this year when tliere was 

 snow on the ground. In other years he has seen it at Hengiti aika 

 [Whitsuntide] . Their grandfather has talked to them of all kinds of 

 birds, and certainly shewed and named this as it flew. Other years 

 when Johan has seen the birds, they were in larger flocks, some ten 

 together. He has seen the nest before at Sardio, perhaps ten years 

 ago, and Mikel says other children have seen it since. Mikel saw 

 one old nest of last year, and is sure it was of the same kind of bird. 

 He thinks he has seen the bird before but is not sure. Johan says 

 he has seen the bird sometimes before. A little after Jacob's day 

 [25th July], Mikel saw a small flock in Keras-Sieppi, and many such 

 at home. Johan saw a lot of young in Wuondis-jarwi about Jacob's 

 tide. Few people know the bird — " had they known it, they would 

 certainly have found nests this year." 



30th November. — Kyro Mikel this day at Muoniovara relates that 

 he found a nest of Korwa-lintu a few days after Ludwig left him in 

 the spring. It was in a three-fathom spruce about a fathom and a 

 half from the ground, a thin-branched tree Avithout luppu (tree-hair) 

 in low ground near the river. There were two eggs. He went again 

 when there were four eggs and laid a snare for the bird. At a third 

 visit he found that a Hawk had taken the bird out of the snare, 

 and knocked the nest to the ground. He says (as he also told me 

 two years ago) that some twenty years since, \vhen he was a boy, the 



