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getting it again. At the same time I should tell you the Sardio lads found a nest which they 
believed to have been a last year’s Korwa-rastas. On this river no one has seen the bird of late 
years, and very few know it at all. One old fellow, Nalio Aaron, says he saw one north of 
Nalima in 1853, and another in 1854. Martin Pekka showed the picture to many people in the 
Sodankyla and Kittila districts, but he could not make out that the bird was at all known; and 
in all his journey, when he kept a good look-out, he did not see one; so that even this year it 
seems to-have come very sparingly and locally, just in the district north, east, and south of 
Pallas-tunturi. In 1853 I told you of a boy, Sieppi’s Johan, who described a nest of birds he 
had found some years ago, which, from my interpreter’s version, I thought might be that of the 
Waxwing. ‘This boy, on being shown a skin, said he had never before seen the bird. 
“Tt is a relief to think that I am not bound to go to Russia next spring unless I like it, as 
I before felt that I was. I almost think I may leave the unbounded riches of the Nova Zembla 
coasts and of the north of Siberia—their Steller’s Duck, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Knot, 
Sanderling, Grey Plover, Grey Phalarope—to younger adventurers. 
* * # * * ® # % * * % 
*¢¢ Almost every day (and it is now the sixth since that of my arrival here) Ludwig has told 
me the whole story of the Sidensvans’ nest, and I am never tired of hearing it:—how the season 
was very backward; how, in their expedition, he and Piko Heiki were getting very much out of 
spirits at the little success they met with; how he saw this bird in the sunshine; how, when 
at last the nest was found, he could scarcely believe his eyes; how he went to it again and again, 
each time convinced when at the spot, but believing it all a dream as soon as he was at a 
distance; the rising and falling of the crest of the bird, its curious song or voice: all he is 
eager to tell over and over again; and I have the fullest version, with all the “I said,” ‘ Heiki 
said,” “‘ Michel said,” “Ole said,’ &c. These Sardio lads, as you have heard me say formerly, 
have a good knowledge of the small birds of their neighbourhood; but they are none of them 
sure whether they have ever seen Sidensvans before. As I have also told you, it seemed to be 
known to a very few wood’s-men on that side of the country under the name of “ Korwa-rastas” 
or “ Korwa-lintu” (Ear-bird). It had occasionally attracted their attention, as having feathers on 
its head standing up like squirrel’s ears. It was not till the second year of my stay here that I 
ascertained this with certainty. The first summer I believed it to be “‘ Harrhi,” a bird coming in 
bad seasons, and properly the Common Jay; but it seems that this name is also really sometimes 
given to Sidensvans ; and therefore, as well as for other reasons, I am inclined to believe that the 
bird is only here very occasionally. .... 
«¢,.. The young Waxwing I should wish our old friend Yarrell to describe; for I think it 
would give him pleasure. He might exhibit a nest and eggs at the same time with a pair of the 
birds in breeding-plumage to the Zoological Society; but, for special reasons, I should wish the 
Waxwing not to be talked about till the spring.’ 
“Mr. Yarrell’s death having prevented Mr. Wolley’s wish from being carried out, the 
announcement of the discovery was communicated to the Zoological Society, in the short though 
very comprehensive paper I have before alluded to, at their meeting on the 24th March, 1857, 
the specimens being exhibited by my brother Edward. They consisted of two nests—one of 
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