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and I am assured that this Mikel Sadio is quite trustworthy. The 

 skin of a male Pine- Grosbeak was brought to me at the same time 

 from some one in Kyro, I am not sure of whom. Pekka and his 

 brothers, children of the woods, are familiar with most of the birds 

 of the country. This egg agrees with those ol: the thoroughly 

 identified nest in every respect except that it is slightly larger. 



[This egg was figured by Mr. Hewitson as above cited. lu 1856 Mr. Wolley 

 gave it to my brother and me for our collection. — Ed.] 



§ 2251. Four. — Sadio, Kemi Lappmark, 11 June, 1(S56. 

 " Cock snared. L. M. K." 



From a nest found by Mikel Sadio on the night 6-7th June, when 

 there was only one egg in it. Ludwig's note is : — " It was in the same 

 kind of place as the Silk-tail's nest [§ 808], but about one hundred 

 and fifty fathoms more towards the strand.'' Ludwig first saw the 

 birds, but JVIikel found the nest, and Ludwig climbed into the tree 

 — a spruce, a fathom and a half high ; the nest about a fathom from 

 the ground, and close to the base of the tree. I have sent the nest 

 to England. 



§ 2252. 7hrc.-— Sadio, June, 1856. " With hen. L. M. K." 



The nest was found by Ludwig on the same night as the first 

 Waxwing's, i. e. 6-7th June, but the first egg was not laid in it till 

 the 11th. So it was left for Mikel, who snared the hen bird, and 

 brought it to Muoniovara, 29th June. The nest, now before me, is 

 slight, made chiefly of fine grass, with just a little hair-lichen, and 

 outside a few trailing roots, of which there have probably been more ; 

 but it has been in Mikel's hands. 



2nd November, 1856. Sadio Mikel and Johan being at Muoniovara 

 [rf. antea, p. 219], tell me that the Kdpy-lintu makes its nest in a 

 place where spruce and pine are blended, in a small tree without 

 tree-hair, either a spruce or a pine, but mostly a spruce. He has 

 seen old nests two fathoms from the ground, but they are generally 

 six or seven feet. One could catch the bird in the hand were it not 

 for fear of breaking the eggs. The cock bird, the red one, never 

 sits on the nest. Mikel thinks that there were about the usunl 

 number of birds this year. Johan saw an old nest in the same tree 

 with a new one. They build always about the same place; where 

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