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of this bird, specimens being sent to Mr. Hancock by him in 1868 (Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 170 — where his name is miscalled " Waiuwright ") ; but in his account of 

 it (Ten Years in Sweden, pp. 343, 344) he does not state that he ever took the 

 nest himself.] 



[^ 2318. One. — Kyro-vaara, Kemi Lappmark, 12 Jane, 1861. 



Brought with the nest to Muoniovara, 25th June, 1861, by Piety, having 

 been found as above by the boy Fetter Mattisson at the top of a spruce, about 

 eight fathoms from the ground. The ^<^^ was laid before the 12th of the 

 month, and when the boy saw that there were no more, he took it. Piety saw 

 this pair of Ristinokkas about a spruce-tree, but did not see the nest, so he 

 told this boy he should watch the pair of birds, because they certainly had a 

 nest there, as the boy since found. Piety said that he was sure of this being 

 a Histinokkcis egg and nest, because he had seen since a similar nest, which 

 he had examined, but it never bad an egg in it, though there was a pair of 

 Ristinokkas. He intended to examine this nest again when he returned. 



This he did, and all the result of a ten days' search was a single bird, which 

 he thought was the small kind of Ristinokka, but its skin duly arrived in 

 Englaud, and is certainly that of a Loxia pityopsittacus. 



The empty nest above spoken of was just at the top of a very high tree, 

 making it very hard to find.] 



[^ 2319. i^ii?^.— Gardsjo, Werraland, 31 March, 1868. " Bird 

 shot." Erom Herr E. 0. Stenstrom. 



My brother Edward wrote : — " These eggs, with the nest and bird, were 

 given to me at Gardsjo by Herr Stenstrom, and were taken by Hans (the 

 man who went to Lapland as a ' collecting-lad ' with Mr. Wheelwright in 

 1868) in the presence of F. and Herr Stenstrom. The nest had been previously 

 found by Hans, and, as described to me, was placed in a scrubby Scotch-fir tree 

 about fifteen feet from the ground. The hen-bird was on it when they visited 

 it, and on Hans getting up the tree it flew oil' to a neighbom-ing tree, when F. 

 shot at it and missed it. After Hans had come down with the nest and eggs, 

 the bird returned to the top of the same tree, and he shot it. On the 30th of 

 April I went with Hans to see a Parrot-Crossbill's nest which he had found 

 some days before with young birds in it. This was in a forest about two miles to 

 the north-east of Gardsjo. The ground there is rocky and poor, and the trees, 

 nearly all Scotch firs, are stunted in their growth. The nest was in a Scotch 

 fir, which was about twenty-five feet high, and at about eighteen feet from 

 the ground. The young had apparently just left it. The nest from which 

 these eggs were taken was, they said, about a mile further on, but as it was a 

 had day I did not go to the spot. When they took it the snow lay deep on 

 the ground. Hans had found another nest with four eggs, a few days after the 

 first one, and Herr Stenstrom shewed it to me. Both he and Hans agreed that 

 this species breeds earlier than the Common Crossbill, and when I left Gardsjo 

 the first week in May, in their opinion the latter had not begun to build."] 



