420 PINICOLA ENUCIiEATOR. 



He took itj and it is now in my possession. The nest which had 

 the eggs was pulled to pieces by the children at his house in Sadio. 

 The one before me is made externally of an extremely light network 

 of thin trailing twigs laced into one another ; one of these twigs 

 completely encircles the nest^ and goes halfway round it again, and 

 seems to be about twenty-eight inches in length. This network of 

 twigs is suddenly changed into a compact bedding of fine bare roots 

 mixed with a few sprigs of hair-lichen, which form together almost a 

 separate nest inside the outer network. Mr. Newton considers the 

 nest to be very like that of a Bullfinch. A second nest from Kyro 

 appears to have been lined with fine grass and hair-lichen. 



[Of the four eggs only one now remains in the collection, and that served, as 

 above indicated, Mr. Hewitson in a supplementary plate to the last edition of 

 his work, having been figured by him in the part which appeared on the 1st 

 of May, 1856. A second egg was sold at Mr. Stevens's, 7th March, 18o(5, 

 to Mr. Holland, a third was given to Mr. Wilmot, at whose death it passed, 

 with the rest of his collection, to Mr. G. L. Russell, and is now in the Museum 

 of the University of Cambridge. The fourth egg went to M. Parzudaki, who 

 no doubt sold it. — En.] 



§ 2250. One. — Kyro, Ounasjoki, Kemi Lappmark, 1855. 



Hewitson, ' Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3, pi. liii*. fig. 2. 



This egg, brought by the boy Johan Johansson, was found near 

 Ala Kyro by Pekka, brother of Mikel, Niku, and Sallanki Josa. 

 Mikel Sadio was in Pekka's house the dfiy before midsummer, that 

 is, on the 23rd June, and Pekka talked about having seen the 

 nest, but hesitated about being at the trouble of going to fetch it. 

 However, Mikel urged him to do so, and Pekka went — if I rightly 

 understood, in company with Autto Josa ; at all events, Josa had seen 

 the nest about a week before. In a very short time Pekka came 

 back with the nest and two eggs, which appeared to have been 

 deserted, and it was surmised that a Hawk had killed the mother 

 some time before. This nest was not the one brought to me, which 

 Pekka had in the house before, as Sadio Mikel witnesses [ut supra]. 

 They all talked about the bird unanimously as Leipiaineri [properly 

 Lark], which is their name for Pine-Grosbeak — the same bird as Mikel 

 brought to me the skin of from another nest [§ 224-9]. At the same 

 time there was some talk among the dishonest part of the bystanders 

 to pass them off for Kdpy-lintu^ by which they meant Crossbill, and 

 supposed to be the object of my enquiries. Josa is an honest man. 



