284 TURDUS PILARIS. 



§ 1249. Three. — Rowa, East Bothnia?, 1855. 

 From Puntz's lad, Nils. 



§ 1250. 8ix. — Sardio, June 1857. 



One of three nests of Fieldfare found a week or two ago by Johan 

 Sardio, and this, with very remarkable eggs, he tlionght must be 

 different ; but he saw that the nest and the birds were just like the 

 rest. All were at a good height in trees. Johan was with us yester- 

 day to Ounas-tunturi — an excellent bird-knower. 



[It was this Johan who actually found the first AVaxwing's nest (§ 808).] 



S 1251. /S'/ci'.— Akka-mella, West Bothnia?, 6 June, 1857. 



Brought yesterday with the nest by Taipalen Jacob from Akka- 

 mella, where 1 have two or three times this spring seen and heard the 

 birds. It was about five feet up in a birch-tree. A heavy nest, 

 with sandy mud at the bottom, jakilld [tree-lichen], and a thick 

 lining of fine grass. 



\ 1252. Four. — Viksi-saari, West Bothnia, 4 June, 1857. 

 "J. W." 



From a nest taken, with four others, by myself. In every case 

 the bird seen either by me or Heiki. All the nests in spruces, none 

 lower than a fathom from the ground. A Great Shrike showed itself 

 watching us, but we could not find its nest. The five nests were all 

 made chiefly of grass mixed with clay, with a lining of unmixed 

 sheep-grass. 



[§ 1253. One. — Gulsvik, Kroren Vand, Hallingdal, Norway, 

 June, 1850. "From Mr. A. C. Smith. 



From a nest of five, in an alder-tree, about twenty-six feet from the ground, 

 as related by Mr. Smith in ' The Zoologist ' for 1850 (p. 2947, errore 2047). I 

 trust I may be pardoned for here mentioning that it was through tliis commu- 

 nication that I owe not only the possession of the present specimen, but the 

 far greater privilege of becoming one of his friends.] 



