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Schmaltz, and askin of the Red-necked Grebe. The letter [translated | 
is as follows :— 
“My daughter Hilda has charged me to procure this bird, but it 
has unhappily not been in my way to treat it as wished. The bird 
could not be got before the moulting-time, and is consequently not 
in full plumage. The eggs were also found, and I send them though 
not asked for.... This bird is dear, as I had to send a long way 
to have it shot, for they are bad to find and only in distant lakes ... 
Florentine Schmaltz, Neder Calix, 22 July, 1855.” 
The eggs came from two nests, as Fru Schmaltz subsequently told 
me at an interview at Kalix. The name by which the bird is known 
is something like Skrind-lom. There were in the box fragments of 
two or three other eggs. She said she had tried to clean them ! 
[One of the eggs thus received was sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 7 March, 1856, 
to Mr. Hudleston, a second 31 May, 1860, to Mr. Marshall. Out of the 
fragments above mentioned, which were given to me by Mr. Wolley, 
Mr. Salvin, with his remarkable skill, built up two fairly presentable 
specimens. I well remember the interview of Mr. Wolley and Fru Schmaltz 
which took place on board the steamer ‘ Berzelius,’ on which we were 
returning down the Gulf of Bothnia in September, 1855. j 
§ 5050. Two.—KKalix, 1857. 
These eggs of Red-necked Grebe, collected as the former (§§ 5048, 
5049) by Mlle. Hilda Schmaltz, are from the neighbourhood of 
Mr. Dann’s old locality. I received them at the Post-Office in 
Haparanda in September. 
[Four eggs were received, but two were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 25 February, 
1858, to Mr. Braikenridge. These have since passed into the collections 
of Mr. Parkin and Mr. Ticehurst. | 
§ 5051. Zwo.—8 May, 1857. 
§ 5052. Four.—1857. 
From 
§ 50538. Zhree.—1857. Pastor 
| ‘Theobald. 
§ 5054. Zwo.—Soborg S6, Zealand, 21 May, 1857. 
§ 5055. Vhree.—1857. 
