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bird here a circumstance, however, which I did 

 not so much regret, as it breeds very commonly in 

 Wermland. It is very remarkable that, although 

 we often kill the young birds, it is exceedingly 

 rare that we ever kill a perfectly mature goshawk, 

 most that we kill being birds of the year. The 

 goshawk does not migrate from Sweden, but 

 remains here throughout the whole year the old 

 birds, according to Nilsson, in the vicinity of the 

 breeding-place, the birds of the year migrating to 

 other tracts like the snowy owl and jer-falcon ; 

 and this is borne out by the fact that if ever we 

 kill one of these latter birds in the winter in 

 Wermland, it is almost sure to be a bird of the 

 year. All the eggs of the goshawk that I have 

 obtained in Sweden have been dirty- white, save 

 in one instance, when I have seen the egg very 

 faintly, almost indistinctly, dashed with light red- 

 brown the usual number, five. 



The osprey (F. Haliaetiis, Lin. ; " fisk ljuse," 

 Sw.; "tschiftscha," Lap.) was not uncommon in this 

 district. "We took the first nest on June 1. I 

 never saw either the kite (Milvus reyalis, Briss. ; 

 " glada," Sw.), the common buzzard (Buteo vul- 

 garis, Ray ; " orm wriik," Sw.), or the honey 

 buzzard (F. apivoms, L. ; "bi wrtik," Sw.) in 

 Lapland, nor do I believe that any of these come 

 up so far north. 



