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in a line with my mark. With her beak she arranged the eggs or the 
nest, or both, and then sat down, putting the fore part of her breast 
to the ground first, facing to the north. I had a full and uninterrupted 
view of her as she sat upon the nest, quite unconscious of my 
proximity: sometimes she pecked on the ground, sometimes she 
preened her feathers, especially of her neck, and for a long time she 
sat with her neck curved like a Swan’s, but principally just at the 
upper part. At last she turned her neck back and put her beak 
under her wing, just apparently in the middle of the ridge of her 
back. On the nest, as when she was walking, her caudal plume was 
generally depressed. After enjoying for a short time the sight of a 
Crane sleeping on her nest, the mere *-birds being silent, the Thrushes 
only here and there singing, past midnight, I began to think it froze, 
and being sure the Crane did not mean to carry off her eggs, I crept 
out of my lair, and so on to Ludwig’s fire. 
After three hours or more, we came to the west side of the hill. 
There lay the Crane, head and neck invisible, and no doubt under the 
wing. In afew seconds she raised her head, and we went round to 
come on her from the north, and see how she would leave the 
uest. It lay just over the little ridge, and I was hardly more than 
twenty paces off when I first saw the bird; but even then I took her 
for a grey stone, and she looked nearer to my mark [than I 
expected] ; but turning my eyes on her I saw her head drawn into 
her neck. She rose instantly. The cock rose once at half a mile 
(English) from the nest and flew over the direction in which she was 
going. I found the eggs now close together: the nest wet in one 
part to the surface. Between this myr and Karto-uoma I saw five 
wild Reindeer. In the latter marsh were two Cranes, which, from 
the way in which one cast up its wings, must have had a nest; but 
we could not find it. These eggs had apparently been sat upon only 
a day or two. 
[In 1855, as Ludwig told Mr. Wolley (Ibis, 1859, p. 196), this nest was 
robbed by a Filfrass (Glutton); but, later in the summer (9 August), I 
accompanied them both to see it, and made the sketch of the site, whence 
Mr. Jury executed the plate (tab. E) issued with the first part of this work, 
Mr. Wolf adding to it the figures of the birds. The spruce-fir clad hill in the 
middle of the background is the “Thrush-wood,” where Mr. Wolley lay 
hidden with branches to watch the bird, and the birch tree to the right of the 
1 [That is myx in Swedish—a fen or hog, and not, as in English, a lake or pool. 
—Ep.] 
