MOTACILLA ALBA. 355 



[^ 1825. Five.— heck, Donegal, 24 June, 1862. " R. H." 

 From Mr. Robert Harvey.] 



[^ 1826. Five.— St. Neot's, Hunts., 16 May, 1864. From 

 Mr. Rowley.] 



[^ 1827. /S'z^.— Sparbam, Norfolk, 30 May, 1873. From 

 Mr. F. Norgate.] 



[§ 1828. Five.— Spavhnm, 17 May, 1875. From Mr. F. Nor- 

 gate. 



Taken by Mr. Norgate.] 



MOTACILLA ALBA, Linnaeus. 



WHITE WAGTAIL. 



§ 1829. Ttvo. — Switzerland. From M. Nager-Donazain, 1847. 



§ 1830. /S'z>.— Tornea Valley, 7 June, 1853. 



Shortly before reaching the Arctic Circle, near the top of a good- 

 sized Scotch fir, was tied up a hollowed-out piece of the trunk of a 

 tree. The men said there was a nest in it, and, climbing up, I found 

 a White WagtaiFs with seven eggs. The birds were plentiful about. 

 This is the first nest-box, called here a tijlla \_iila'], I have seen. 



§ 1831. T/irec—MuonioyaYa, 10 June, 1853^ "J. W." 



[O. W. tab. J.] 



These were in a nest in the recess of a pile of firewood in an out- 

 house of the yard of Handelsman Forsstrom, our landlord at 



' [This was the day of Mr. Wolley's first arrival at Muoniovara, on the Swedish 

 side of the river Muonio, which was for so long a time his head-quarters 

 in Lapland, and accordingly the present seems to be a not inappropriate place to 



