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he is to tell us, so that we can be present at the taking of 

 them. 



Knut Nystuen was over to-day, and says he can see 

 nothing of the Eagles on Sturganoset. 



June 12. 



Monday, the 12th of June, a very warm day, we went 

 up in birch- wood, where we separated, Alston taking the 

 upper part and I the lower, he having the large gun for 

 the chance of Skov Ryper. 



Alston got only a few nests of Fieldfares and one of 

 Kedstart. The latter contained five eggs, but the nest, 

 which was composed principally of feathers of Skov 

 Ryper, with a little hair and shreds of alder-bark, and 

 in a hole in a rotten tree, could not be got out in any- 

 thing like a perfect state. He also got a Water Ouzel 

 (Dipper) on his way home. Also he found a Redpoll's 

 nest just begun. The nest of the Redpoll was lined 

 entirely with small roots, no willow catkins. 



I took the lower part, and during the day found four 

 nests of Bramblings (three with eggs), two of Redwings 

 (one with six eggs, the other with young and one egg), 

 one with young of Redpoll (large-sized and light-coloured 

 birds), and nest and four eggs of Song Thrush. I saw 

 two Woodcocks, one of which I could have shot. 



The Fieldfares' nests brought in by Alston had 6, 4, 4, 

 4, 3, 3, and 3 eggs respectively. 



The nest of the Redwing with six eggs, off which I 

 shot the $ bird, and the one with young, were like 

 those we found at Tvinde, and were situated on the top 

 of rotten stumps, one about 2J feet from the ground, in 

 an open part of the birch-belt, the other about a foot 

 from the ground, and not 3 yards from a nest with 

 young of a Redpoll. 



The three nests of the Brambling which I took, and off 



