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it, with young. He put tbcm in a cage, I)nt the mother let them 

 out by opening the fastening. This nest is before me, and is made at 

 tlie bottom of a considerable quantity of okl branches, mostly bleached 

 and barkless, and in some cases covered with black lichen ; then a 

 lighter-coloured liclien and, at the top, feathers, with a little hares' 

 down, spiders" nests, and so fortli. The thicker part of three 

 other nests is here — two from Rowa and one from Mantuvaara. 

 They are [composed of] a considerable thickness of featheis, lichen, 

 spiders' web, silvery bark — such as is found in Bramblings' nests — 

 and other things. The feathers are mostly those of Capercally and 

 white Willow-Grouse. The Mantuvaara nest is mostly made of 

 cock Capercally \s with a few Lapp OwFs feathers, and, as the latter 

 bird was so scarce last winter, this would almost favour the notion 

 that the feathers had been collected previously. An egg was sent with 

 the Mantuvaara nest, which I have given to Mr. Newton. The lad 

 who found it was Samuel, who sent me the eggs last year [§ 2600] \ 



^ 2602. One. — Mantuvaara, Kyro, Kemi Lapmark, 1855. 



[The ^%^ mentioned a few lines above. The nest is, I believe, that in the 

 British Museum.] 



S 2603. i^owr.— Rowa, 1855. 



O. W. tab. xiii. figs. 3, 4. 

 Found by Nils at the end of April, and brought to Ludwig at 



' [In a note, written apparently on the 21st of May, 1857, concerning a nest of 

 Kuukainen found two days before at Lombola Rowa, by Colli and Abraham of 

 that place, through the bird being seized by a Hawlc and its cries attracting their 

 attention, Mr. Wolley says : — " The Rowa lads told me of the liability of Ktmkainen 

 to be taken off its nest by Hawks, often when men have just left it, Abraham, on 

 this occasion, did not see the Hawk with the bird in its claws, which his brother 

 said he met, but heard the cries." This nest seems to have been rather remarkable 

 in its structure, and Mr. Wolley describes it as " made of more feathers than usual — 

 a considerable mass, white Grouse and coloured hen Capercally — mixed with light 

 lichen or tree-hair, and little bits of sheet lichen ; also bits of wasps' nests and a 

 good deal of willow-down, doubtless last year's, one or two spiders' webs, while 

 there were rough dead twigs of spruce, a few dry bents, and some, as well as grass- 

 leaves, in the silvery, macerated form, and a few bits of green moss of the trailing 

 .sort." I may remark that Dr. von MiddendorfF noticed that wasps' nests were 

 among the materials of the nest oi Perisoreiis found by him {ut SM/3r<), p. 480, note '), 

 and, as will be seen, the whole structure of the bird's nest was likened to a wasp's 

 by one of Mr. A\'olley's collectors {iit infra, § L'GIO). — Ed.] 



