356 MOTACILLA ALBA. 



Muonioniska [Muoniovara] . I saw the bird ou the nest, and it 

 was clearly the continental White Wagtail. The children took an 

 interest in it; so I put back two eggs, which were immediately 

 covered by the hen bird. They were a little sat on. 



§ 1832. Four.— Vntspki, 8 June, 1855. 



[Taken as Mr. Wolley was ascending the river which flows from Lake Enara, 

 and while its upper part is wholly in Finland, for the greater part of its course 

 it divides Norway from Russian Lapland. There is nothing to shew in which 

 of the three countries the nest was found.] 



§ 1833. T/iree.—Bom'o, East Finmark, 17 June, 1855. '' Bird 

 seen. A. N." 



[The nest found by myself, and its contents shared by me with Mr. Wolley.] 



§ 1834. Two. — Vardo, East Finmark, 1855. 



From Herr Reen. I saw the bird on Vardo and the neighbouring 

 islands. 



§ 1835. Five. — Quain-by, Vadso, East Finmark, 1855. 



Found by a lad, the brother of Margareta, who brought so many 

 eggs. He described the bird well, but did not know its name. The 

 nest, now before me, is like a Wagtail's, made of grass, raoss^ roots, 

 and so forth, lined with cow- and rein-hair, and of considerable 

 bulk. 



[These are very large eggs.] 



mention the view thence (Plate J) copied, by permission, from Pettersson's ' Lapp- 

 land' (Stockholm : 1866). Looking eastward across the backwater-lake {tvuopto) 

 in front of the house, the river is seen, and beyond it the village and church 

 of Muonioniska on the Finnish side, while in the distance is the southern end of 

 the Pallas-tunturi range, and the nearer hill to the right is Ollos-tunturi. The 

 prospect is very wide and of singular beauty, scarcely any drawing being able to 

 do it justice, though that of Captain Pettersson, who was no contemptible 

 landscape-artist, calls it to remembrance, even if it should fail to give an idea of 

 the view to those who have not seen it. The original drawing must have been 

 taken in 1860, only three years after Mr. Wolley left Lapland.— Ed.] 



