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the eggs are Pintail’s ; the only other species that occur to me are 
Shoveler and common Wild Duck—both very scarce, the former 
perhaps more rare. 
[I think that Mr, Wolley never had actual proof of the occurrence of Anas 
clypeata near Muonioniska, though such a bird may have been described to 
him by some of the people. -As to A. boscas, it-was very uncommon, but 
I remember seeing in some house the skin, with the bright green feathers on 
it, of the head of a Mallard, made into an ornamental watch-stand, and I 
myself shot a Duck at Viksi in August, 1855. - But there are no eggs in the 
collection, from Lapland, which could, I think, be rightly attributed to this 
species. | 
§ 5583. Four.—Mukka-uoma, 1855. 
These look lke. Pintail’s, and Mr. Simpson [Hudleston] shot 
some Pintail-flappers (a brood) [August, 1855] between Kilpisjarvi 
and Mukka-uoma. This nest was on the lake-slde, but when found 
I did not learn. I have compared these eggs with both Pintails’ and 
Long-tailed Ducks’. 
§ 5584. Hight.—Keras-sieppi, 13 June, 1856. “L. M. K.” 
Ludwig found these in a marshy spot on the banks of Raitajirvi, a 
quarter of a Swedish mile north of Keras-sieppi. He saw the bird 
well as it left the eggs, and again when it settled on the water. He 
is certain it was Jouhi-suorsa, and the feathers and down now 
before me, which have ever since been kept with the eggs, appear to 
belong to this species. 
§ 5585. Onxe.—Kontio-vuori, Ounas, 1857. 
Out of five, by Martin Piety’s boy—Jowhi-suorsa. 
[The remaining four were sold at Mr. Stevens’s rooms, 31 May, 1860, to 
Messrs. Bond (2), Burney, and Godman. ] 
586. Lour.—Elveden, 1852, 1853, 1854 (2). 
These laid as above by one and the same pinioned bird, and taken by my 
brother or myself. She generally made her nest at a considerable distance from 
the pond on which she and her mate were kept. The last time in a roadside 
hedgerow, She disappeared just as the eggs were hatching, having most 
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