PERISOllEUS INFAUSTUS. 4S1 



jiirwi ; found hy Johau Samuel Mantuvaara. Whether they are so 

 or not remains to be seen. 



[This eutrv is not dated, but must have been made at the end of June or 

 beginning- of July 1854, just before JMr. WoUey was leaving Muoniovara for a 

 short visit to England. He had not then seen the finder, and had no opportnnity 

 of speaking with him, till some time after his return to Lapland. These eggs 

 were the first of the species obtained by Mr. Wolley. Whether thev were 

 the first known to naturalists is discussed in the prefatory note above.] 



Dec. 26, 1854. — Samuel, who found these eggs, is now present. 

 He found them, while much snow was still on the ground, in 

 a smallish Scotch fir, with much black lichen. The nest was 

 about two fathoms from the ground, rather less and flatter than a 

 Thrush's [i.e. Tardus pilaris], made principally of lichen (/w;y;o). 

 Three eggs. He happened to be cutting trees, and Avhen a tree fell 

 it touched another and the bird flew out. It was on a hill. The 

 tree was very thick and close in its branches. 



§ 2601. 77tree.—'Ro\ya, East Bothnia, 1855. 



Found by Johan Eric Rowa, and the principal serviceable remains 

 from several nests. They were brought to Ludwig 23rd June, and 

 blown by him. On the 12th of August Johan Eric was at Muonio- 

 vara, and I talked with him about Garrulus infaustus. He found 

 this year fourteen eggs of it — two nests with four, and two with 

 three, eggs in each. The nests were generally in small trees on the 

 south-east side of marshes, nearly the last trees towards the marsh, 

 so as to be exposed to the morning sun (?j. They Avere often so 

 that from the snow you could reach them with the hand; but one 

 that Johan found was in a tree as big as a stock, and about half- 

 way up it. The nest is conspicuous enough, made of sticks and 

 lichens, " with wliite lichen at the top, and feathers visible from the 

 outside.'''' There was not more than a single nest in a neighbour- 

 hood. One of the brothers first looked for two days without finding a 

 nest ; but in this way he got to know the ground the birds frequented. 

 It was no use w^utchiug the birds, " you may watch them for ever " ; 

 they may be flying half a mile (Swedish) from the nest. In the morn- 

 ing the birds collect in flocks to eat. When one happens to see a pair 

 leave the flock, one can sometimes see them to a nest. After they 

 have been going about for some time, one of them suddenly separates 

 and flies along the ground, and then flies straight to its nest if it 



