AMPELIS GARRULTJS. 221 



§ 809. Five. — Sardio, Kemi Lappmark, 10-13 June, 1856. 

 "With hen." 



O. W. tab. X. figg. 6, 7. 



Brought by Sardio Michael with the nest and hen bird snared 

 upon it. The nest is made principally of tree-hair of several colours, 

 interwoven with bents, grass, and Equisetum, outside old spruce- 

 twigs. 



This nest was a little to the south of Kyro Lassi's house, but on 

 the other, i. e. the east, side of the river in a little kuusikko autto, 

 spruce- valley or dale. The spruce was about as thick as those they 

 lay on roofs (malka) . The nest was two fathoms from the ground, 

 and about an ell from the bole. It was a htppu puce, i. e. a deal of 

 tree-hair. He saw the lump of lichen, wondered, began to climb, 

 and the bird flew out. He had seen two birds there the same day. 

 The bird cried a little, not as it flew from the nest, but as it flew a 

 second time. The nest was on the south-east side of the tree, stand- 

 ing on a licheny branch, just where the twigs separate. The tree 

 was of that scraggy kind where the branch is long before it gives 

 out twigs. It was a thickish place in the wood — a small strip of 

 spruce. 



[The egg represented by fig. 6 is doubtless that to which Mr. WoUey, in his 

 original account of the nidification of the Waxwing (P. Z. S. 1857, p. 56), 

 applied the term " salmon-colour," and of which he sent home a coloured 

 sketch in 1856. I had once thought (Ibis, 1861, pp. 101, 102) it might be one 

 of those drawn by Mr. Hewitson (torn. cit. pi. iv. fig. 6), but I am now sure 

 that that opinion was wrong, and that it is as I now say. It appears from a 



in one of Mr. WoUey's pocket-books, whence the above extract is taken ; but it 

 will be borne in mind that he has drawn the nest as if still in its place, whereas it 

 had been removed more than ten months before. It was given by him to the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Museum. In the same pocket-book is a list of the Sadio 

 lads, in their order of age, as follows :— Pekka (i. e. Peter), Matthias, Johan, 

 Michael (Mikel), Erki (Erik), and Frederik (Fetto). Some confusion seems occa- 

 sionally to exist between Sadio Michael, the father of these boys, and his son of 

 the same name, and I cannot in all cases clear it up. There were also five girls, 

 one of whom, Brita Maria, seems to have shared in the award of fifty silver rubles, 

 paid to the family (in addition to some hundred dollars they had already received) 

 by Mr. Wolley on the 30th of August, 1857, after hearing from Dr. Nylander that 

 that sum had been promised by the authorities of the Museum at Helsingfors for the 

 first discovery of the nest of Ampelis gamdus (cf. § 813), and that in the Doctor's 

 opinion the Sadio people were entitled to it. Of this fact Mr. Wolley informed 

 the authorities, adding that he could not allow them to pay for his discovery. — 

 Rd.] 



