354. STERCORARIUS LONGICAUDA. 
to have been then a competent witness. At the same time, I am rather 
inclined to believe that the eggs he got in 1852 and 18538 were really those of 
Buffon’s Skua. His notes on the occurrence of this and the other species of 
Skua in East Finmark are printed in the ‘(®fversigt’ of the Academy 
of Sciences of Stockholm for 1861 (pp. 85, 86).] 
§ 4714. One.—Sources of the Tana, 20 Jume, 1857. “ Both 
birds shot. J. W.” 
This egg I had some difficulty in discovering, though the birds 
were rolling themselves on the ground, and dashing at my head. 
It was quite nestless, on remdeer-moss, and considerably incubated. 
The skins of the birds I prepared at Nyborg, and sent to England. 
§ 4715. One.—Sources of the Tana, 25 June, 1857. 
Of two sent in a much decomposed state from Pelto-uoma by the 
hands of Sadio Michael, from Erik the gestgifvare [at Pelto-uoma | and 
Heiki [Hendrik Vieldajarvi?], my skjuts-men to Norway. They had 
doubtless found them on or about the date inscribed, as they left 
“Tennon Antis ” the second day before, and about that time they 
would be on the mountain where I found the other egg [$ 4714]. 
I begged the men to look for more, as I had seeu at the same place 
several more pairs of the bird, which came up when I shot. 
[The other egg from this nest was sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 23 February, 
1858, to Sir W. Milner. In the Sale Catalogue, Mr. Wolley wrote of it :— 
“This egg is one, and the second best, of the only three trustworthy eggs of 
this bird I have ever myself seen.”} 
§ 4716. Ywo.—Vuontisjarvi, 22 June, 1858. 
FProught to Muonovara vy Anonis Johan with other eggs from 
Kautokeino and eis-where, these having been taken as above by 
Lars Keino, as Knovlock was informed. 
[Two from a second nest taken by the same man on the same day at 
Maaselka, were sold at Mr. Stevens’s—one, 8 March, 1859, to Mr. Wilmot ; 
the other, 31 May, 1860, to Mr. Tristram. Of the former Mr. Wolley said in 
the Sale Catalogue :—- 
This egg I feel considerable confidence in. It was found with 
another egg (also sent to me) in the nest, on the 22nd June, by a 
Lapp, well known to me, as he was crossing the watershed between 
Sweden and Norway; on which watershed, a little further to the 
east, I found the bird breeding in 1857. At this distance, I have 
