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of siglitj but I had several good views of it. The nest, now before 

 me, is made of small sticks, bents, moss, and so forth, lined with fine 

 grass. On pulling it to pieces I find that it is first made something 

 like a Thrush's, with a thin layer of the stuff that looks like cow- 

 dung, and this is lined with the fine grass. 



The third nest had four eggs, nearly ready to hatch. It was ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful, made externally of reindeer-lichen, and more 

 internally of grass, remarkably compactly put together. It was 

 placed upon the horizontal part of a little birch-tree, which for two 

 feet was growing perpendicular, and the rest, felled with an axe, just 

 retained its connection. At the point of junction, rather on the 

 horizontal trunk, was the nest, resting against two or three perpen- 

 dicular sprouts risiug from the ground. It is beautiful indeed, and 

 Herr Salomon expressed his admiration at it. Waiting at the nest 

 for the old birds, I saw a Redwing watching us from a little distance ; 

 but as the second nest was in that direction, I could not be certain 

 that this was the bird we were looking for. However Ludwig, who 

 is very intelligent, assures me the bird which flew about him when 

 he first found the nest was precisely like the others, as he knew, 

 chiefly by its note. I have not yet seen Fieldfares here. Redwings 

 sing incessantly — a few loud falling notes, and then a scarcely audible 

 warbling appearing to proceed from a different kind of bird : night 

 and day all the same. 



§ 1311. One. — Miioniovaara, July 1853. 



Out of five specimens brought to me by a boy, who said that he 

 found them in a space of ground cleared of trees. The nest, now 

 before me, is precisely that of a Redwing — a little turf or such like 

 stuff at bottom, then the outer part of the nest, made of strong grass, 

 lined with cow-dung looking stuff" like a Thrush's, and inside this fine 

 grass. There can be no doubt the eggs belong to the Redwing, which 

 is far more plentiful at Muoniovaara than the Fieldfare, which I 

 myself have not yet seen just here. As I write this (8th July) a 

 Redwing is singing outside in the wood, though it is midnight. 



Two of these, forming lot 108, were bought by Mr. Burney at 

 ]\lr. Stevens's, 17th February, 1854. 



§ 1312. /Yy(?.— Muoniovaara, S July, 1853. "J. W." 



Five eggs of Redwing taken by myself this day, two hundred yards 

 from the house. A girl took me to the nest, and I saw the bird pretty 



