222 AMPELIS GARRULUS. 



memorandum in one of IMr. Wolley's pocket-'books, that this nest and hen-bird 

 were given by him in September, 1857, to the Museum of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Stockholm (ffifveis. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 1857, p. 318).] 



§ 810. SicV. — Keinovaara, Sardio, Kemi Lappmark, 10-13 June, 

 185G. "With hen." 



0. W. tab. X. fig. 8; P.Z.S. 1857, Aves, pi. cxxii. (nest). 



Of Sardio MikeFs lot. This nest I sent to England for the British 

 Museum, and the bird for the Norwich Museum. It seems to be a 

 hen^ and has not so much black on the throat or so broad a yellow 

 tip to tlie tail as the cook, and the yellow is less rich and the black 

 by Avhich it is bordered less intense. The eggs are of about the 

 average character, one of them [that figured ut supra cit-l of a rather 

 long shape. The nest is large, thickly built and deep ; made princi- 

 pally of hair-lichen, but the external scaffolding of dried spruce twigs 

 of some five or six inches long. There is also amongst the scaffolding 

 a good deal of willow-down, some old grass-fibre (that is, the silvery- 

 looking remnant of old grass-fibre), and also a little sheep^s bent, 

 principally as lining, and there are two or three feathers and bits of 

 down. 



Mikel and Jolian afterwards told me that this nest was on the south- 

 west side of the hill, which is pretty steep, in a not very open spot, 

 where the earth has been burnt {palo mad), but so long since that 

 birches have sprung up and become trees or large shrubs. Below, 

 on the border of marshy ground, were spruces, and where the nest 

 was they were scattered and birch prevailed. The nest was placed 

 in a kuusi karakka — dwarf or stunted spruce. Mikel could reach it 

 with his hand as he stood on the ground, but to lay a snare in the 

 nest he climbed up or stood on a branch, and the tree bent down con- 

 siderably under his weight. The nest touched the bole of the tree, 

 which was not the case with any of the other nests. It was found 

 by the bird flying out as Mikel passed. It made no noise as it left 

 the nest, and was silent when it came back, but once, when on the 

 wing, it cried out as it flew. 



§ 811. Five. — Keinovaara, Sardio, Kemi Lappmark, 10-13 

 June, 1856. ** Bird snared." 



O. W. tab. X. figg. 9, 10; P.Z. S. 1857, p. 55. 

 Brought with the nest and bird snared upon it. The nest is a good 



