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bird was abundant. They found a nest, but the birds were wild and 

 deserted, since that time he has scarcely seen them, but has heard 

 them several times, and says they must have been very scarce. 



Anton Josa, aged some thirty-five years, the same day tells me that 

 he never knew or observed the birds till this spring. He heard of 

 them from Sardio, and afterwards found a nest with four young 

 birds, as high as he could reach in a small spruce near Kyro. 



At Sardio, April 20 [1857]. — The tree in which was the first nest 



of Waxwing is now before me. It is a young spruce of about twelve 

 feet high. At the bottom are a few dead branches, then a blank 

 (now) for some four feet. The nest was a foot from the bole, not on 

 one of the lowest branches, for there are four or five just below it. 

 [It was] on the south-west side of the tree. The average quantity 

 of tree-hair on the tree. At four feet from the root the tree is ten 

 inches and a half in circumference. The place is pretty open ; both 

 larger and smaller trees near. About one hundred and tw^enty yards 

 from the house \ 



' [The ace impanyhij;' woodcut is a reproduction of the slijjlit s]\etcli of tlic tree 



