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§ 5704. Mve.—Kangasjirvi, 23 June, 1858. 
Out of seven brought the same day by Eva Stina, aoe on 
Rantasadio. 
§ 5705. Three.—Serkijarvi, 29 June, 1858. 
Out of eight found as above by Piko Heiki. 
(Three were sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 8 March, 1859, to Messrs. Marshall, 
Troughton, and Burney, one of which is now in Mr. Parkin’s collection. 
I gave the remaining two to Dr, Baldamus in 1860. ] 
§ 5706. Fowr.—Lapland, 1858. 
Brought with other eggs, 11 July, by Kyré Niku, to Knoblock, 
who wrote in his book :—“ 10 blown eggs, Meri-lintu (Scoter) and 
Koskelo (Red-breasted Merganser), mixed together so that I cannot 
separate them.... Also a stuffed black fowl with a white space 
on its neck.” 
[The stuffed bird proved to be a specimen of Ctdemia perspicillata, and 
Mr. Wolley stated in his Sale-catalogue for 1858-9 :—‘ This season a Surf Scoter, 
only the second ', I believe, that is known to have been killed in Scandinavia, 
has been sent tome. The man who brought it also brought Scoter’s eB8s, 
but I have no reason to suppose they were other than Common Scoter’s 
Itis to be observed that Kyré Niku, though perhaps not one of the fost 
trustworthy men, did not pretend that the bird whose stuffed skin he brought 
was killed from the nest which contained the eggs. It was certainly killed in 
* [The first Surf-Scoter known to occur in Scandinavia was shot at Kaaressuando 
in 1833, and sent to the Stockholm Museum by the well-known botanist 
Lestadius, at that time pastor there, from whom Mr. Wolley may have heard of 
it, though he doubtless had read. of it in the ‘Tidskrift for Jagare och Natur- 
forskare ’ for January 1834 (p. 799), where it is recorded, and it was also duly 
included by Prof. Nilsson in the Second Edition (1835) of his ‘Skandinavisk 
Fauna’ (Foglarne, il. p. 429). In the Third Edition of that work (ii. p. 465), 
a second Scandinavian example, killed at Kalmar, 14 June, 1846, is noticed, but 
that volume did not appear till 1858, and was therefore unknown to Mr. Wolley 
when drawing up his Catalogue. The example killed near Kyro, as above stated, 
has been mentioned on information received from old Knoblock by Prof Palmén in 
his continuation of Magnus von Wright’s ‘Finlands Foglar,’ published in 1873 
(p. 467), and others are also recorded from Scandinavia. Herr Malm in 1844 
stated (Naturhist. Tidsskvift, ser. 2, i. p. 209) that the species bred, though very 
rarely, in Enare Lappmark; but I know no evidence to support the assertion — 
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