380 OTOCORYS ALPESTinS. 



cliart of 1849. Mr. Wolley was, I remember, much taken Avith the fact that 

 the latter was now joined to the mainland — no doubt by the process of 

 upheaval still going on in that district, and, I believe, that it was on this 

 peninsula, which perhaps not fifteen years before had been insulated, that he 

 took his first nest of the Shore-Lark. Komagvrer, the locality of the other two 

 nests, is on the coast further to the north-east. The eggs of the first two 

 nests, notwithstanding the early date, seem, from the way in which they have 

 been blown, to have been much incubated.] 



§ 19('S4. Three. — Vadso, East Finmark, 3 June, 1855. "Bird 

 seen well. J. W." 



O. W. tab. xi. tig. 10. 



As soon as I arrived by the '■ Gyllcr ' from Vardo on ray second 

 visit to Vadso^ I went to the Quain-by to see if any eggs had been 

 found for me. One lad, a Norwegian, had found a nest^ which he 

 said belonged to the bird I had formerly shewn him, but of which 

 he did not know the name. It was three or four hundred yards 

 from the furthest house. As we came near, the boy pointed out the 

 spot, and with my glass I could distinctly see the head, tail, and 

 part of the back of a Shore-Lark. After watching it a little, I went 

 nearer, and it left the nest directly, flying behind a heap of stones at 

 some distance. The nest was in a little cup somewhat deeper than 

 necessary to hold it ; no shelter, but grass and so forth around, not 

 yet grown. The nest now before me is made outside of a few little 

 twigs and plant-stalks, further in of fine sheep-grass, and it is lined 

 with tufts of reindeer-hair and the seeds of Composite. On the 

 whole a good mass of nest, but, from the cup in which it was placed 

 not requiring much care in its construction, it does not hold together 

 well. It was in an enclosed field. I had previously found three 

 other nests [§§ 1981-1983], the eggs of which, already written upon, 

 will be subsequently entered herein. 



§ 19S5. Four. — Vadso, 5 June, 1855. "Saw bird. J. AV." 



O. W. tab. xi. fig. 17. 



§ 1986. Four. — Vadso, 5 June, 1855. "Saw bird on. J. W." 

 Of the second of these nests, I watched the bird as it sat on the 



