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_made round the eggs. One egg I took with me and cleaned out 
25 June at Polmak. The others I left packed at Peltouoma, and 
they were brought to Muoniovara, 4 August, by Michael Sadio. 
They were found by Peter Ylitallon, and on his bringing them in, I 
asked after the bird. He said he had snared it on the nest and had 
the wings at home. They are before me, and seem to be Bean- 
Goose wings, indeed this is the only species of large Goose I have 
seen even at Muonioniska. It is a common practice to snare or 
trap large eatable birds on the nest, and from the man’s manner 
I did not doubt that these wings belonged to the mother of 
these eggs. 
[The fifth egg from the same nest was sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 23 February, 
1858, to Mr. Braikenridge, and is now in Mr. Parkin’s collection. | 
§ 5454. Zwo—Vuontisjirvi-kyli, June, 1857. 
_ These were brought at the same time as the last, but in a different 
basket, and were received by Michael from Johan Jacob Vuontisjarvi, 
who found them. 
§ 5455. Zwo.—Muotkajarvi, June, 1857. 
Out of three, brought by Elias Eliasson, 18 June. 
§ 5456. Zwo.—Rautusjirvi, June, 1857. 
Brought from Johan Rautus, 17 June. Fresh eggs—eatable. 
[Mr. Wolley in sending me one of these in November, 1858, wrote :—* This 
egg is just about the same size as those of which I sent one to the sale last 
year (§ 5453), from which I saw the wings of the bird. I have several other 
eggs of Iso Hanhi from Lapland, and they all agree in being somewhat less 
than the smallest of the twelve eggs of Grey Lag Goose in my cabinet from 
Sutherlandshire.” | 
§ 5457. Mour.—Vellijoki-ranta, 31 May—5 June, 1858. 
Brought to Muoniovara, 23 June, by Petter Rowa otherwise 
Punsi. 
(Two others from the same nest were sold at Mr. Stevens’s rooms 31 May, 
1860, to Mr. Braikenridge and Capt. Powlete-Orde respectively. The former 
is now in Mr. Parkin’s collection. | 
