144 TOTANUS FUSCUS. 
| This nest must have been, by a few hours, the first of the species taken 
through Mr. Wolley’s means. The day the eggs were taken is marked on 
them by him as the 28th, but in the Ngg-book it is entered as the 29th. 
Mr. Wolley was himself at Palajoki on the 50th (§ 1240) and doubtless then 
received these eggs from the finder. On the 29th another nest was taken, the 
contents of which apparently did not reach him till some days later. That 
was “found by the young Wassaras (Lapps) near Jerisjiirvi or Serkijarvi on 
dry ground. They called the bird Palotiutt,x—Palo is Finnish for burnt 
eround.” The three eggs from this last nest were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 
26 January, 1855, to Mr. Gurney, Mr. Walter, and Mr. Milner. <A third nest 
with three eggs was found on the 31st at Modas-lompalo by Olli, but not 
brought till the 11th of June. He called them Mustatiutti and said that he 
saw the bird fly off at one or two fathoms’ distance and it was not to be 
mistaken. These eggs were also sold on the same day as the last at 
Mr. Stevens’s to Mr. Burney, Dr. Frere, and Mr. Gurney. | 
§ 3638. Four.—Muoniovaara, 1 June, 1854. “ Bird snared.” 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. Ixxxviii. fig. 2. 
Found by Anton on the hill here. He did not think to find it just 
then ; but said ‘‘ Here flew Mustatiutti, but where are its eggs? Can it 
be so high up on the hill? Yes, here are four eggs.””? Ludwig and he 
went home for a snare, and when they came back the bird would not 
leave the nest, but there it lay, shewing the white on its back, and 
its head drawn in. They went away not to frighten it too much, and 
came back breaking sticks, but it would not go. At last it flew with 
tjut, tjut and so round, and it also sat on trees. Ludwig set the 
snare, then went away. ‘There came much rain, so he took the eggs 
and left the snare. The next morning there was the bird fast by the 
foot. The skin, a very good one, is now before me. He saw that 
when the bird went to the nest it alighted at a little distance, and 
went dotting its head. 
On the 15th October I saw the nest, on about the highest part of 
the hill, in a triangle of old sticks, each two feet long: the nest 
made of fir-leaves, in the open part of the wood, with small trees 
about. 
§ 3639. Zhree.—Viksi, 3 June, 1854. 
Found by Ludwig, beyond Viksi, on a continuation of Muonio- 
vaara. The bird flew up about a fathom from him, and so began to 
ery ¢juti, tjut, flymg around and also high up, at last sitting on a 
tree, but he could not shoot it, and he tried in vain to take it with 
