MERGUS MERGANSER, 629 
P.S. The boy now here says it was eight or ten paces from the 
water’s edge, on an island, in a hole half an ell deep, made by the 
bird. The branches of a birch-tree concealed it. He is sure it was 
Uu-Koskelo. 
§ 5874. Seven.—Serkijarvi, 1854. 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. cxix. fig. 3. 
Brought at midsummer by Vassara’s lads—large young inside. 
I have no doubt they are Goosanders’. They were found in a tylla 
[nest-box], say the lads, and I have not known them lie at all about 
the rare eggs they have brought me. 
(One figured as above by Mr. Hewitson. } 
§ 5875. One.—Sallanki, 1854. 
Said to be Uu-Koskelo by Sallanki Johan, a great rascal. The 
man’s word is [worth] nothing. A foot of Goosander sent by him 
would prove nothing. As it is he has sent a foot of a female Red- 
breasted Merganser ; but it is not at all necessary to suppose that 
there was any connexion between the foot and the eggs. He told me 
at Kyro, on the 28th of November, that the eggs was Uu-Koskelo’s. 
P.S. March, 1855. Johan has again mentioned this egg of 
Uu-Koskelo. I have little doubt it is correct. I have ascertained at 
Pulu that a nest of Ungelo [Smew] was taken at Sallanki last year, 
and that it has often bred there, as Sallanki had told me before. He 
says he once caught a hen on the nest. It is like a little Koskeio ; 
the cock’s head like Tirra, that is Tern: eggs, white. 
§ 5876. Scv.—Modas-lompalo, 1855. 
Brought by Modas Olli to Ludwig on the 24th of June. He said 
his brother Peter had found them in a ¢ydla, and that they were 
Uu-Koskelo’s. They are very respectable men, and Ludwig fully 
believes them, independently of the appearance of the eggs, which 
are glossy white, or yellowish-white, but rather smaller than one 
would expect a Goosander’s egg to be. 
§ 5877. Stv.—Muotkajarvi, May, 1859. 
Out of seven which appear to be Goosander’s, as they were said to 
be by the girl who brought them—sister of Gabriel, and daughter 
