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young one by Toras-lombola, as Le told me in that year by de- 

 scription/ 



^ [Only four other nests seem to have been found in 1857 by Mr. Wolley's 

 collectors. The first of these contained four eggs and was taken on the 6th of June. 

 It is thus entered in his egg-book : — 



"Brought to me on the 11th by Regina's Johan, who had been with the post- 

 bag to Ruhala. They were found by Johan Mattisson Ruhala, who said they 

 were Koriva-Rastas, as they no doubt are. I had talked to him in the winter. 

 Of the eggs sent one was completely smashed, and two of the others with small 

 holes broken in their sides, through which T have blown them. I take one with 

 me to Norway." 



Of the second the following is the story : — 



" On the 6th of July Knoblock sent Eva Stina Kangas-jarwi to Heiki to ask 

 what eggs he had met with after he had left me at Kyro. She brought back the 

 next day, amongst other eggs, these five Korwa-Rastas. On the 11th Heiki him- 

 self came to Muoniovara and said that the nest was found with three eggs in it by 

 Jacob Larsen Kyro on the 24th of June, and taken by Heiki himself on the 29th 

 from Myllo-tiawa on Suas-jokis-strand. The nest, which Heiki had left in Kyro, 

 was built in a four-fathom spruce of not more than half an ell in circumference at 

 the bottom, and was placed on the south side of the tree about five eUs from the 

 bottom." 



These five eggs were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 23rd February, 1858; two were 

 bought by Mr. Braikenridge, and the remaining three by Mr. Tristram, Mr. Burney, 

 and Mr. Walter. 



The third nest was taken by Mr. WoUey himself on the 16tli June, 1857, and 

 was the only one he ever saw in situ, but it had been deserted by the birds, some- 

 thing, a squirrel possibly, having robbed it of its eggs as fast as they were laid. 

 There is no mention of this nest in the egg-book, and the account of it is contained 

 in a letter to my brother Edward of 28th July, 1857, as follows : — 



" For myself, I could not, in spite of every exertion, get a living Waxwing within 

 range of my pair of eyes. I took a nest which had been deserted a day or two 

 before, and from which something had thrown the eggs, one after another, upon the 

 ground as fast as they were laid ; of course, broken to bits. It was close to the 

 house at Sardio. In vain I wandered through the woods, and scarcely shut my 

 eyes at night. Many people were on the look-out ; but, after the nest of three eggs 

 I told you of from Jaris-jarwi, the only arrival has been a perfect nest of five eggs 

 found by Piko Heiki, whom I desired to give up everything else, and work all the 

 mountain-district for Waxwing." 



This nest bears date " 16th June, 1857," and is now in the Museum of the 

 University of Cambridge. It was built in a spruce, and agrees in most respects 

 with those previously seen and described by him. 



The fourth nest with five eggs was found by Martin Piety on an island, Ajos- 

 saari, in the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of the Kemi river ; but he, being met 

 by Dr. Nylander who " represented that Mr. WoUey had already obtained as many 

 as he wanted " — a statement certainly not in accordance with fact, — was induced 

 to part with it to the Doctor for three silver rubles. He announced the acquisition 



