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plate is that on which he put the little strip of white bark to mark the place 
from a distance. We turned over the old nest and found many pieces of 
egg-shell imbedded in the grass composing it, and also bits of the membrane 
lining the eggs, proving that the nest had been used in previous years. 
Mr. Wolley had not been quite certain whether the nest he took in 1854 was 
identical with that he had found in 1853, but the result of our search in 1855 
left little doubt on that subject. During our visit we saw nothing of the birds, 
which had probably not completed their moult and were hiding themselves. | 
§ 3179. Zwo.—Karto-uoma, 23 May, 1854. “J. W. zpse.” 
These eggs were in a nest placed only a couple of feet from the spot 
in Karto-uoma where we found it last year [§ 3177], after the birds 
had done with it. It was on one of the little strips of firmer land, so 
abundant in these marshes, made of a handful or so of whitish dry 
grass or Carex, not more than twenty inches from one side to the 
other, the mossy ground on which it lay raised two or three inches 
above the water. Close to the nest, almost in it, some recumbent 
sprigs of sallow, and a kind of green creeping moss principally around. 
Placed nearly in the centre of the south-east part of the mere. 
Nothing yet beginning to grow there except a kind of Carex 
coming into flower. Gnats at present rare. Made a fire on a 
hillock by the side of the wood towards Carsako—smoke blowing 
towards the nest. See old Crane go sailing down, probably so that 
it could see that the eggs were safe. ‘Two Cranes walking together, 
and afterwards playing and skipping. Once one throws its neck back, 
its beak perpendicular in the air, and trumpets. ‘Two or three 
o’clock in the morning, after a great deal of walking backwards and 
forwardsat a considerable distance from the nest, the hen comes on 
it. I see her sit down. I had marked the place by a muffatee on 
a tree one hundred yards beyond. I think I see them look at 
it. In a short time the hen leaves; but a second time comes on. 
Head visible and the neck with my glass. J may be nearly an English 
mile off. When we fairly start for the nest, the bird almost imme- 
diately leaves. Harrier, Crows, Goshawks, Ruffs, Pintails, Black 
Redshanks, &e. 
§ 3180. Zwo—Laho-uoma, Muonioniska, 5 June, 1857. 
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In 1856, Rautio Michael found a young Crane in this myr, which 
is only about a quarter of a Swedish mile from Muonioniska, on the 
