PLECTROPIIANES NIVALIS. 447 



§ 2407. Four. — Kyrkjuvogr, South-western Iceland, June, 1858. 



This nest I found several days previously by the bird flying into it 

 when I was standing very near. The cock was a dark bird, that is, 

 without the full white of some specimens. The nest is much more 

 simply built than the last — moss outside, coarser grass inside with a 

 very little white hair and about ten feathers — Ptarmigan^s, Raven''s 

 (two), and Duck^s (three or four). Two of the eggs were taken on 

 the 8th of June, the others later when the nest was deserted. 



S 2408. i^/z;e.— Kyrkjuvogr, 1858. 

 Found by myself. 



§ 2409. /S'/.z^.— Kyrkjuvogr, 23 June, 1858. 



[There is no other information respecting these eggs, which were merely 

 inscribed by Mr. Wolley, and not entered in his book ; but from the difference 

 in the coloration of some of them, one could scarcely believe them to be all 

 from one nest were there not written evidence of the fact.] 



[^ 2410. :Z7/ree.— Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 1852-1856.] 

 \S 2411. /S'/cz;.— Hafaleiti, 5 June, 1858. " J. W. and A. N." 



Found immediately after that above mentioned (§ 2406). The eggs visible 

 in the nest without removing any of the stones, and of remarkable beauty. 

 The hen bird flitting from stone to stone close to us, so that we satisHed 

 ourselves as to what she was. The cock did not come so neai'.] 



\% 2412. Seven. — Kalmanstiorn, South-western Iceland, 13 

 June, 1858. "A.N. and J. W." 



I saw the hen bird fly out just behind the heels of our guide's pony, as he 

 passed a mass of half-columnified lava. There were many likely crevices, so 

 we withdrew for her to shew us which the nest was in. This she soon did 

 by entering it, and we set to work to remove the rock covering it. During 

 the operation Mr. Wolley had a narrow escape from serious injury by the fall 

 of a great pillar of lava, which grazed his foot. The passage leading to the 

 nest was quite five feet long.] 



[§ 2413, /S'/cT.— Kyrkjuvogr, lG-19 June, 1858. "A.N. Bird 

 caught." 



I found this nest on the 16th, from seeing the bird which had just come off 

 it. It \vas in a chink between lava-stones, very near the surface. There 



