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tree, would trill out his clear, loud, rich 

 song. 



The note of the blue-throated warbler is cer- 

 tainly louder and more varied than that of any 

 other warbler, and it well deserves its Lap name of 

 " saddan kiellinen " (or hundred tongues) totally 

 different from anything I ever heard before ; in 

 fact it is quite impossible to describe it on paper. 

 The nest is most difficult to find, and I only pro- 

 cured two (on June 27), on one of which I caught 

 the old female. Both were built in the ground, 

 quite open, with no shelter of a bush, and one I 

 had to cut out with my knife. The nest was 

 altogether formed of dry grass, deep cup shaped. 

 Eggs, in both cases, six, pale bluish-green, minutely 

 spotted with rusty brown, giving the eggs quite a 

 rusty appearance. We shot the young flyers in the 

 end of July. The habits of this warbler are cer- 

 tainly far more aquatic than those of the redstart, 

 and on August 3rd, 1863, while beating a reedy 

 meadow in Wermland for double snipe, I shot one 

 example of the female blue-throated warbler. 



Of the pipits, I only met the common meadow 

 pipit ( Anthus pratensis, Bechst. ; " ang piplarka," 

 Sw.), and we used to find this very high up on 

 the fells. 



Of the tree pipit I never got a specimen here. 

 I never could identify the red-throated pipit (A. 



