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June qth. — The morning after this I paid another visit 

 to the base of the hill and took several specimens of the 

 the only butterfly I saw. This butterfly l as it flies looks 

 much like our meadow-brown, but the ' under side of 

 lower wings are grey, like the under side of a sallow 

 leaf.' 



I was again ' struck by the fact I noticed last night. 

 Under a considerable proportion of the trees which held 

 a fieldfare's new nest (under the majority I thought) was 

 lying a last year's nest ; as if to suggest that the birds 

 return to the same tree and pull the old nest out. For 

 fieldfares' nests are set so deeply and firmly in the fork, 

 that either they could not be blown out in an entire 

 state, or if blown out would surely be carried farther 

 away. I asked our friend the farmer whether boys ever 

 touched the nests, and he said, " Never — why should a 

 boy touch a nest ? ' 



' His little boy Christian brought out a baby hare, 

 apparently about three weeks old, which he had picked 

 up on the mountain side, and was keeping as a pet. 

 This little creature had black-tipped ears, and its coat 

 was pepper and salt. As I held it in my hand it made 

 a squeaking noise.' 



While we were at Tromso we interviewed one Jansen, 

 a walrus hunter, and the only man there, they said, who 

 had ever been on Kolguev. He had landed there once, 

 he told us, five years ago, and he pointed out the spot 



1 Erebia Manto Schiff. 



