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see " spor " of bear and glutton in the snow, and 

 a wolf took two reindeer in one night close to the 

 village. The nights now were always frosty, 

 however warm it might be in the day. The only 

 nests we got in April were those of the Siberian 

 jay and hawk-owl ; early in May Tengmalm's owl, 

 the great black woodpecker, the rough-legged 

 buzzard, and the great grey shrike. By the end 

 of the month all the hole-breeding birds were 

 laying, as well as the fieldfare, willow-grouse, 

 capercailzie, hazel-hen, and mealy redpole. On 

 May 6th we had the last regular snow-storm. It 

 snowed without intermission throughout the whole 

 day, with 4° warm Celsius, but in the evening it 

 turned to rain. On this day we caught the first 

 fish in the bow-nets, 751b. of perch, many of them 

 3 lb. each. An odd teal or two appeared, for there 

 were already a few open places by the shallow 

 sides of the rivers, and a flock of fell geese flew 

 over on the 8th. On May 4th, the last drove of 

 reindeer came up to the fells, and the Laps said 

 the river was no longer safe for sledging. It soon 

 now began to be full of holes, and for a fortnight 

 or so the communication was closed between this 

 and Lulea. I shot the first wader (a golden-plover) 

 on the 15th ; saw the first swallow on the 16th. 

 On the 18th, at night, I shot a widgeon and a teal, 

 and in the early morning two capercailzie (which 



