596 ETHYIA FULIGULA. 
cock is extremely fine ?”—“ only a few of them.” Obs.: The boy as 
translated by Ludwig, and Ludwig by Herr Salomon to me.’ 
One of them Lot 128 at Mr. Stevens’s, 17 February, 1854, bought 
by Mr. Burney. 
(Another, of three given to my brother and myself, was afterwards given by 
me to Canon Tristram, and is now in Mr. Perkin’s collection. | 
§ 5747. Three.—Jerisjarvi, 1853. 
Obtained at one of the four houses upon the borders of the lake. 
They called them Sortti (Tufted Duck), and I saw many of the birds 
about the lake and in the river leading to it. The people appeared 
to have a certain knowledge of the bird, and to know the spots where 
it bred. 
A pair of these, Lot 127, at Mr. Stevens’s, 17 February, 1854, 
bought by Mr. Salmon. 
§ 5748. Sic.—Jerisjirvi, 6 July, 1853. “J. W.” 
These I took myself upon a small islet in Jerisjarvi. A girl, 
fishing, pointed out the nest. The bird left just before our boat 
touched land, and with my glass I watched it at a hundred yards’ 
distance. It swam so low that I could not see the white on the wing, 
but the colour and everything about it assured me that it was Tufted 
Duck. I could see the bright yellow eye. The down was just as in 
the nest I took near Muonioniska [§ 5745], and the girl had 
1 [TI print the foregoing passage from the Egg-book, as it serves to shew not only 
the kind of information with which Mr, Wolley, like all new comers in a country, 
had at first to put up, but also the difficulties arising from the need to use two 
interpreters. He had then been barely three weeks in Lapland, but his informant, 
who from other subsequent entries I believe was one Johan of Toras-sieppi, seems 
to have been a more than usually knowing and observant boy, and the mixture of 
truth and error in his statement is only what might be expected im the circum- 
stances. The birds’ names, being taken down by ear, are in the original spelt 
phonetically, and I am not sure that I have in every case rightly interpreted them. 
Puna suorsa (Red Duck) seems to be given in the south of Finland to the Pochard, 
but Mr, Wolley never obtained any positive evidence of its occurring so far to the 
north ; and though some eggs once brought to him may belong to it, I dare not 
include them in this Catalogue. The boy and his father possibly had a drake 
Wigeon in their mind, for that and the Pochard are in many places frequently 
confounded under the name of Redhead or its equivalent. In the same way Lapin- 
suorsa in the south of the country is the Shoveler—a species with which Mr. Wolley 
never met, nor could ever hear of with certainty, so far as I know.—Eb. } 
