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finer bits, and was in the side of one of a great number of small 
bush-covered mounds, lying near together in quite a dry place. 
At first it was easy to see, but as more eggs were laid it was 
carefully and effectually concealed by matting the grass all round 
it. We took it on June 11th, when it had six eggs, as we were 
going to Jerkin for a few days, and were afraid to leave it for the 
chance of another egg. The old bird was a great skulker; we tried 
a surprise many times, but could never catch a glimpse of her, 
and only heard her once. 
Redstart. Ruticilla pheenicura.—Wrigley took the first nest 
on June 12th, from a hole in a birch-tree near Jerkin; there were 
seven fresh eggs. The day the Buzzard was taken, June 15th, 
I was completely deceived, when, scrambling through the birch- 
wood, a little bird started from under my feet, and popped away 
with a flirt of a red tail: hurrah, a Blue-throat! excited search, 
and grand discovery of five blue eggs in a feather-lined nest under 
a tree-root. Melancholic remembrance that more birds than Blue- 
throats have red tails. From a hole in a tree one day | extracted 
a dead mouse with a Redstart’s egg sticking to it; retribution 
would appear to have overtaken a robber here. 
Whinchat. Pratincola rubetra.—Only one observed, and that 
a male, shot between Fokstuen and Dombaas, May 31st. 
Wheatear. Saaicola cenanthe—First seen at Fokstuen, May 
30th. Numbers frequented the low hills round about. 
Willow Warbler. Phylloscopus trochilus. — Only one was 
observed: shot on Fokstuen Marsh, June 4th. 
Northern Marsh Titmouse. Parus borealis.—A nest of this 
species was taken in the middle of a thick pine-wood at Grut on 
May 15th. A small round hole was bored im a rotten tree-stamp 
about four feet from the ground, and six fresh eggs lay about six 
inches deep in the interior. The nest was made of thin strips of 
bark, and the eggs, as is the custom with many of the Tits, notably 
P. major, were covered. 
White Wagtail. Motacilla alba.—Seen about all the villages 
and station-houses from Nervig onwards, but either they had not 
begun to build or we couldn’t find the nests. One nest of five eggs 
was taken from a crevice in the timbers of Fokstuen station on 
June 10th. 1t was composed of hay and moss outside, thickly lined 
with finer bits of hay and Lemming-fur. Another was stuck on the 
extreme end of a projecting timber in an old boat-house ; it was 
