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^ 2113. Three. — Mukka-uoma, Tornea Lappmark, 1854 



From the okl woman of the other house at Mukka-uoma. The 

 nest like a Chaffinches ; moss^ featliers^ hay, and very hue strips of 

 apparently birch-bark. I see many Bramblings about. 



[A fourth egg from this nest was given in 1860 to Dr. David Walker, for 

 the Belfast Museum. 1 



§ 2114. Six. — Kaaressuando, 19 June, 1854. "Bird snared." 



O. W. tab. xi. fig. 25. 



The nest found by Elias, the bird snared and brought to me. It 

 is a hen now before me : — white over the rump, yellow in the axilla, 

 secondary wing-coverts tipped with tawny ; the latter pen-feathers 

 with a white spot near the base of the outer web ; upper part of the 

 head brown and black, neck black and grey in broad longitudinal 

 pieces. Eggs nearly fresh. 



^ 2115. Four. — Kaaressuando, 19 June, 1854. 



Found near the last nest the same evening by one of the men, 

 and in all probability of the same species. Eggs fresh. In both 

 nests grass, feathers, seed-doAvn, moss, birch-cuticle, lichen (not 

 much of the latter), and in the lining very fine grass, feathers, and 

 rein-hair. In the construction of the second nest pieces of wasps' 

 nest have been used. 



§ 2116. Three — Muonioniska, East Bothnia, 1854. 



Brought with the nest at midsummer by Macki's Colli and said by 

 him to be Hdrkd-Peipponen [literally, Bull-Finch], but as Elias was 

 present he had perhaps put the name into Collins mouth. However, 

 everything has the look of Brarabling, and Bramblings are now (July 7) 

 as usual singing or droning outside the house : but then a few days 

 ago I saw a hen Chaffinch in the garden. 



§ 2117. i^/z.-^.— Muonioniska, 1854. 



Brought to me by Puntz's lads in a nest just like a Chaffinches or 

 Brambling's, lined with some hairs and willow-down. Both white 

 and speckled Grouse's feathers employed in its construction. 



