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a twentj-foot spruce. The day was cold and rainy^ so I did not stay 

 to look for more nests ; but just as I was leaving the spot five or six 

 hirds flew rapidly homewards in great alarm. 



§1234. i'^o^^r.—Pakkila, West Bothnia, 4 June, 1853. "J.W." 



Between Korpikyla and Pakkila ; the birds gave the alarm as the 

 carriage passed. There Avere several other nests without eggs. This 

 one was made with very little mud in its construction, and none was 

 visible externally. The nest was on a stake or stump in a fir-tree. 

 All the trees in this lower part of the valley of the Tornea are very 

 small. 



§ 1235. Two. — Matarengi, West Botlinia, 5 June, 1853. 

 " J. W." 



These I found in a nest at ffifver Toruca or Matarengi, within two 

 Swedish miles of the Arctic Circle. The birds were flying about. 

 Another nest was only just commenced. The tree was one of the 

 small firs that grow near there. Like many others of them it had 

 been cut off" and sprouted again. The nest was on the cut stump, 

 about three feet from the ground, and much exposed. 



§ 1236. Four. — Muonio GEfreby, East Bothnia, 16 June, 1853. 

 " J. W." 



From a nest taken, but not found, by mj^self about seven feet up 

 in a fir-tree. From the large size of the nest and the quantity of 

 mud used in its construction it is evidently a Fieldfare's, the loud 

 cry of which bird I heard just before coming to the nest, and I 

 heard and saw many others in the same district. 



§ 1237. i^/y^.— Muonio (Efreby, East Bothnia, 16 June, 1853. 



The nest shewn to me after the eggs were taken out of it. It was 

 six or seven feet up in a fir, and from its construction evidently a 

 Fieldfare's — a common bird in the wood. 



§ 1238. 7%;w.— Muoniovaara, West Bothnia, 8 July, 1853. 

 Out of five found a mile or two (English) from this place by 



