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specimen of the nest or egg, if taken, seems to have been pre- 

 served or described from either locality. As regards Sweden 

 Dr. Baldamus is said to have received in 1850, from Scania, 

 what subsequently appeared to be a true egg of this bird ; 

 but the first identified nest, with small young and fragments 

 of egg-shells, was sent in 1868 from Hesselskog in Dalsland 

 to Herr Stenstrom, who in succeeding years got three more 

 nests with perfect eggs, while in 1872 Herr Meves received 

 a nest with eggs from Wermland. In 1862 and the follow- 

 ing years the Danish island of Bornholm furnished HH. 

 Erichsen, Fischer and Theobald with the reward they had 

 been so long seeking and so well deserved.* In Germany 

 an empty nest, found by Thienemann in the Riesengebirge 

 many years ago and exhibited in the Museum at Dresden, 

 is believed, as before stated, to be the first authentic example 

 ever seen by a naturalist. According to Hintz (J. f. 0. 

 1861, p. 469) a nest was found in the Butower district 

 of Pomerania in 1860, and in 1862 Herr Schiitt obtained 

 three nests near Waldkirchen in Baden,* while in 1868 a 

 nest was found in the Nedlitzer district of Anhalt, an egg 

 from which came into Dr. Baldamus' s possession. In 

 Austria, according to Herr Grill (Verh. k.k. z.-b. Ver. 1858, 

 p. 427), a nest with young was found in 1858 in the 

 Langbaththale on the northern slopes of the Hollgebirge. 

 The reports of nests obtained in Hungary by Petenyi have 

 been deemed unsatisfactory, but an egg obtained by Herr 

 Bielz from the South Carpathian mountains and sent in 

 1847 to Dr. Baldamus, from whom it passed into the Editor's 

 keeping, seems to have been correctly assigned to this 

 species. In Styria the eggs from two nests, found in 1867 

 on the Hochanger Alp near Bruck, were sent by Dr. Fiister 

 to Seidensacher, after whose death others were transmitted 

 from the same locality to various collectors, and in 1871 

 the Bitter V. von Tschusi-Schmidhoffen himself, and Dr. 

 Hanf, took each a nest on the Sirbitzkogel, at the height 

 of 4500 to 5000 feet above the sea, while two other nests 

 were taken the same season by Dr. Fuster near Bruck. In 



* See foot-note on page 334. 



