244 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



never obtained the nest of either. The golden 

 eagle appeared to remain here throughout the 

 winter, but not the white-tailed. We rarely went 

 out on the fells without seeing an enormous 

 golden eagle, whose eyrie was clearly in the neigh- 

 bourhood, soaring high above our heads, but we 

 never could find the nest. On our road up, a 

 little old Lap brought me a fine specimen of an 

 eagle, nearly as large as himself, which he had 

 picked up dead in the forest. It struck me as 

 very different to any golden eagle I had before 

 seen. It was very much spotted and dashed on 

 the thigh, and wing covered with light yellow. I 

 fancy, however, that it was nothing more than a 

 young golden eagle, for the upper half of the tail 

 was white. 



I may add as a hint to the young naturalist, 

 that he may at a glance determine the difference 

 between the golden and the white-tailed eagle by 

 the leg, which in the golden eagle is feathered 

 down to the toes ; in the white-tailed, bare. 



The Norwegian jer-falcon (Falco jer-falco Nor- 

 wegians, "Wooley; "rip spenning," Lap.; "jagt 

 falk," Sw.). Of this dark jer-falcon I only suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining one nest with three eggs, 

 which was taken by a Lap on June 8th, from a 

 high cliff on the shore of Lake Wihrigaur, on the 

 Norwegian frontier, about fifty miles west of 



