TURDUS PILARIS. 



279 



§ 1224. One. — Norway. From Mr. Hewitson, through Mr. 

 J. H. Tuke, 1846. 



§ 1225. Two. — Umea Lappmark, 1850. From Mr. Lawrence 

 Heyworth. 



These two specimens are from different nests, for one of them 

 Mr. Heyworth remembered by its elongated shape to iiave been given 

 him by a boy, who said it was a Bjork-Trasfs, Mhich we may interpret 

 by " Birch-Thrnsh." It has been blown by two holes at the ends. 

 Mr. Heyworth found two nests himself, from one of which is the 

 other egg he has given me, but he only saw the birds of one of the 

 nests, and of this he wished to keep the eggs himself. Hence though 

 my two eggs are probably Fieldfares^, they can scarcely be called 

 indubitable — especially as the second is not much bigger than the 

 three eggs of the Redwing.^ From the first nest the bird flew ofl', 

 and while Mr. Heyworth was at it, both the old ones flew around, 

 making a strange noise. It was about nine feet from the ground, 

 placed in a small dead fir-tree, covered with pendulous moss or lichen. 

 The tree was at the edge of a moor at the beginning of the trees 

 which rise in a graduated manner from the edge of the plains, being 

 very dwarfish at first. It was in Umea Lappmark, and Mr. Heyworth 

 was after a Godwit at the time. 



The next nest was found a day or two's walk further on; placed in 

 a living spruce, within reach of the hand. Either this or the last 

 nest, or both, made of small fine roots lined with grass, and only a 

 little mud, which was near the outside, in the structure. It was on 

 the last day of June or in the first few days of July that these nests 

 were found. 



§ 1226. Oae.—Vitek, 27 May, 1853. "J. W." 



I took this egg between Rosvik and Ervnlls, having just seen the 

 bird leave the nest and sit on a tree close by. It was in a fir-tree 



1 [These had been taken by Mr. Heyworth himself and brought to England by 

 him unblown in an " almost hopeless condition." In return for blowing them, 

 Mr. Heyworth gave Mr. Wolley the two Fieldfares' mentioned above. I believe it 

 was Mr. Hey worth's journey in Lapland, of Avhich an account occupies several 

 pages in Mr. WoUey's egg-book, that first suggested to the latter the possibility of 

 successfully making an oological exploration of that country — a possibility rendered 

 all the more prub.ible by geographical considerations. — Ed.] 



