258 GALLINAGO GALLINULA. 
first of these nests, by the bird flying off, I marked the spot with 
great accuracy, and returned with Ludwig in three-quarters of an 
hour. I came to the exact place and no bird got up, nor could 
I see the eggs; but locking closer there sat the bird close to my 
feet. I yradually lowered my hand and touched it before it moved. 
Making a grip to catch it, I badly cracked one of the eggs. They were 
not so much set upon as might have been expected. The bird flew 
a short distance, and I shot it as it rose again. The skin is pre- 
served. This nest was made of the dried flat blades of grass, softer 
and more complete than usual. The situation a ridge, a hole made 
in the moss and grass. 
The second of these nests was found at the moment when Herr 
Salomon found his nest of Tringa platyrhyncha [§ 4117}. He did 
not see his bird, but he distinctly saw his neighbour’s bird, and 
declared that it was Scolopax gallinula before he had seen the eggs ; 
and so it proved to be, for having marked the nest and returned, 
I shot the bird, and afterwards skinned it. 
§ 4183. One.—Toras-sieppi, July, 1853. 
Brought to me by the boy who climbed to the Osprey’s nest. He 
called it Taivaan-jaara. 
[Mr. Wolley seems to have thought this to be a Snipe’s egg, and if so, from 
the lateness of the season—he must have got it about the 4th of July,—it can 
hardly be otherwise than a Jack Snipe’s; but it differs very much from any 
other in the series. I find no other notice of the Osprey’s nest above 
mentioned. It was most likely one in which the young had been already 
hatched, and therefore there were no eggs to take and enter in the book. ] 
§ 4184. Four.—C€ fvre-Muonioniska, 1853. 
Four eggs, supposed to be Jack Snipes’, brought to me on the 7th 
of August by a boy, Saari’s Pekka, who lives in Cifvre-byn. On the 
14th of August, Modas Lompalo, the man who knows so many birds’ 
names, brings me four eggs, old and with large young inside, which 
young appear, from the network at the end of the beak, to be 
Snipes, and no doubt Jack Snipes. These last eges are like those 
sent to me from Mielmuka-uoma on the 30th July, or like one of 
Pekka’s eggs. I cannot make anything of Lompalo’s: they are 
so brittle. 
[The Mielmuka-uoma eggs were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 26 January, 1855— 
two to Mr, Gurney, one to Mr. Walter, and the fourth to Lord Garyagh. ] 
