GALLINAGO GALLINULA. aro eS) 
have seen hundreds of eggs received thence without any one of them 
possessing the characteristics of a Jack Snipe’s. 
Mr. Wolley subsequently satisfied himself that the Jack Snipe did not 
“leat” in the air, or utter the keet koot call-note on the ground, those noises 
being exclusively due to the common species; but both are called indifferently 
Taivaan-jaara, meaning the Ram, or, I believe more strictly, the Wether of 
the Heavens. | 
§ 4176. One.—lIso-uoma, 17 June, 1853. 
Four eggs taken in the Great Marsh. The bird flew just before 
Herr Salomon [the Swedish interpreter], but he did not look at it 
particularly, and in several subsequent visits I could not see it. It 
was raining very heavily. 
P.S.—There can now be little or no doubt that these four eggs 
are Jack Snipes’. The nest was made partly of fragments of 
Equisetum, and in situation and every respect agrees with the three 
nests of the 18th of June [$§ 4177-4179]. The size of the eggs 
also exactly corresponds with that of the eggs of the second nest of 
that day. 
(This was the first Jack Snipe’s nest obtained by Mr. Wolley. Of the four 
eggs it contained there remains only one in the collection, which was given 
by him to my brother and myself. Two others were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 
17 February, 1854, to Messrs. Burney and Milner: the fourth I am unable 
to trace. | 
§ 4177. Four.—Karto-uoma, 18 June, 1853. “J. W. shot 
the bird.” 
Hewitson, ‘ Eges of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. xcix. fig. 3. 
On the 18th of June I started with a large party of men and boys 
from Muonioniska (fvre-byn for Kharto-uoma’, the marsh on the 
Swedish side some distance north of Tso-uoma. We had not been 
long on the bog, before I saw a Totanus fuscus which shewed great 
solicitude and kept near us as we were quartering the ground for 
' (This is the first time the name of this marsh, so frequently mentioned by 
Mr. Wolley, is given in the Egg-book. I feel sure it is wrongly written, but I am 
unable to set it right. The first word may be Karttu, which has several meanings, 
though none very applicable. I suspect Korte, as afterwards (§ 4201) written by 
Knoblock, to be more likely—Korte being the Finnish name of the plant we know 
as Marestail or Eguisetum, which grows abundantly in the marsh, though perhaps 
not more so than in some of its neighbours.—Ep. } 
