APPENDIX: NOS. LIII.—LIV. $3 
LIIL. 
Lartann Own. = Strix lapponica, Temm. 
* Proceedings of the Zoolezical Society,’ 1857, pp. 56, 57. 
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Two nests of the Lap Owl were found in Finnish Lapland in 1856. 
In one near Sodankyla there were two eggs [O. W. § 561], and 
when one of the birds was shot, a third egg was found ready for 
exclusion. They were placed on the jagged end of the stump of 
a large Scotch fir, about 12 feet from the ground, at which spot 
the tree had been snapped across by some storm, the upper part 
not yet entirely separated, but sloping downwards till the greater 
part of its weight was supported by the ground. 
The other nest was near the Ounasjoki, at the top of a lowish 
Scotch fir. Some time previously in the same year a bird had 
been shot at this spot, which was found to be a female with eggs 
inside. [A mistake, see O. W. § 562.] The nest was not observed 
until after the shot was fired. At the second visit on the 28th of 
May, there were two eggs in the nest, and again a bird was shot, 
which turned out to be a new female with a fully-formed egg inside, 
through which the bullet had passed. The skin is now in Exgland. 
The birds seemed on both occasions remarkably fearless. 
The eggs are smoother, and, as might be expected, considerably 
smaller than those of the Eagle Owl. The dimensions of the two 
in the last-mentioned nest are 2 in. x 1‘6 in. and 2°] in. x 1°65 in. 
At the meeting of Scandinavian Naturalists in Christiania last 
summer, before I heard of these two nests having been found, I was 
able to announce [see No. L.] that the Lap Owl generally makes 
its nest on the top of a stump. I had received several reliable 
accounts from different woodsmen, but had never found a nest 
myself, or been able to get the eggs, which indeed have, I believe, 
hitherto been unknown to ornithologists. It appears that three is 
the ordinary number of eggs. 
LIV. 
TrnGMALM’s Ow t, Striz Tengmalmi, Gmel., 
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[‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ 1857, p. 57. | 
Lays its eggs in holes of trees and occasionally in egg-boxes. When 
once established it cannot easily be made to leave its quarters, and 
it can, as it is said, keep possession against a much larger bird ; yet 
from the present nest (the only one 1 have had the good fortune to 
meet with), after having laid four eggs, the mother was ejected by a 
Golden Eye. The dimensions of the egg [O. W. § 536] accompanying 
this paper are 1°32 in. x 1°05. 
Muoniovara, 
February 2nd, 1857. 
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