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his discovery two or tliree years later ''■, or he certainly would not have said, as he 

 did, in his Sale Catalogue of Eggs taken in 1856, that he had " had the good 

 fortune to make known to naturalists, probably for the first time, the eggs of this 

 species."] 



§ 2249. One, — Kyro, Kemi Lappmark, 26 May-2 June, 1855. 

 "With bird." 



Hewitson, * Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3, pi. liii*. fig. 1. 



The nest was found by Pehr Eriksson Kyi'o (Martin Piety or 

 Martin Pekka), the trustworthy Lapp, in company with Mikel Sadio. 

 It was on the eve ^ of the Second Heluntai {i. e. 27th May) that 

 they went to Ketto Mello, a little above Yli-Kyro on the same side 

 of the river. It was a little kind of dell where there were groups of 

 small spruces. Piety first saw the bird fly up from the ground with 

 some sticks or nest-lining in its mouth. It remained quite still and 

 silent, and they were some time before they found the nest, apparently 

 completed, but still without eggs. It was about two fathoms from 

 the ground in a young spruce, three fathoms high. The branches 

 about the nest, which was not quite touching the bole, thin, short, 

 and open. Several days afterwards there was one egg ; at the next 

 visit there were three, and, again, several days later there were four. 

 The nest and eggs were now taken, and it was found that the eggs 

 were slightly sat upon. But first the old bird was snared, horsehair 

 nooses being fixed into the bole of the tree so as to stand out over 

 the nest. The skin now before me has been examined by my com- 

 panions [Messrs. Simpson and Newton], and we are without doubt 

 as to its being truly that of a hen Pine-Grosbeak. The Sadio lad 

 says that he saw at least ten old nests thereabouts, and Piety says 

 that he has also seen nests in similar situations, but never anywhere 

 else, i. €. there is always some favourite corner where they are placed 

 year after year. At midsummer the lad found another nest, about 

 a hundred yards off, containing four young birds nearly ready to fly. 



^ [As Zetterstedt's travels are not commonly to be met with, a translation of 

 the passage may as well be given here : — " The Swenska (Swedish Parrot : Loxia 

 enucleator) built its round nest on boughs of thick Scotch-fir and sprnce bushes, 

 near the stem, from four to six ells [8 to 12 feet] above the ground. The nest was 

 interlaced with stalks, and outwardly covered with fine dry spruce twigs. On the 

 i^Oth June there were three blue-green eggs with sparse (glesa) spots, which formed 

 a dark zone at the larger end. These eggs were somewhat sat upon : in another 

 nest on the 30th June the eggs had already large young."] 



^ [In the ecclesiastical sense, for 28 May = 2d Heluntai. — Ed.] 



