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however, we found at times feeding ou the sea-shore, a habit in which we did not 

 there notice the former to indulge. No one with ears could for a moment be in 

 doubt about their respective notes. It is true that the full song of A. cervinus did 

 not differ so strikingly frcan the more feeble performance of A. pratensis as does the 

 joyous burst of ^. trivialis, but it had an unmistakable likeness to the louder and 

 perhaps harsher strain of A. obscw'us (petrosus), and in all cases was sufficiently 

 characteristic for one to be quite certain as to the species of the performer even when 

 he was not in sight. All the nests I saw were simply built of dry bents, without 

 any lining of feathers or hair, and I may add that it was only in this restricted 

 locality in East Finmark that we saw the bird. I believe that Mr. Wolley never met 

 with it elsewhere in Lapland, though, from my knowledge of its eggs, I have now 

 little if any doubt that a nest of four contained among a number collected for him by 

 Pastor Engelmarck in 1853 near Kaaressuando belong to it ; as also two obtained at 

 Naimakka in 1854. There being in neither case evidence stronger than that affoi'ded 

 by the specimens themselves ', I do not include them in this Catalogue ; but the later 

 observations of HH. Palm^n and Sahlberg ((Efv. Finska Vet.-Soc. Forh. 187(5, 

 pp. 241, 242), who found the species in several localities in TorneS (or Enonteki.s) 

 Lappmark, and many examples breeding on Ounastunturi, increase the probability 

 of the correctness of my view. 



In the enumeration which follows of the eggs of this species taken in the district 

 just mentioned I depart from my usual way of placing first those that were in 

 Mr. WoUey's collection, but arrange the whole series, so far as possible, chrono- 

 logically. — Ed.] 



^ 1942. Four. — Vadso, East Finmark. Early in June, 1855. 



[These were no doubt brought to Mr. Wolley by one of the many children 

 he employed to find nests for him around Vadso, and did not attract his 

 particular attention, his only note upon them at the time being " Something 

 like Tree-Pipits." They are, however, thoroughly characteristic of the species, 

 and our subsequent experience so assured him that they belonged to A. cervinus 

 that he felt justified in offering for sale, on the 7th of March, 1856, a fifth 

 specimen from this nest, which was bought by M. Parzudaki ^.] 



' [The resemblance of some eggs of A. cervimis to some of Emberiza lapponica is 

 so close that I do not attempt in all cases to discriminate between them, unless note 

 has been taken of the lining of the nest, which in the case of the latter seems to 

 be always furnished with feathers, while that of the former is, as above stated, a 

 simple structure devoid of such luxury. — Ed.] 



2 [Mr. WoUey's note on the species in the Sale-catalogue is as follows :— " This 

 very distinct and striking species breeds on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Its 

 appearance and song are quite characteristic, and its eggs have most interesting 

 peculiarities. It must occasionally have visited England ; but in its winter dress 

 it would be very generally overlooked.'' — Ed.] 



