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Capercaillie. Tetrao urogallus. These are eggs from its native 
forests, where this noble bird has never been subjected to man, as the 
modern race of Scotland has been. A peculiar interest attaches to 
eggs from the district about Muonioniska and the north of it, inas- 
much as the Blackcock is not found there, and hence there is no 
possibility of the eggs being hybrid, as they occasionally are in most 
other places. 
Lot 75. Two, ‘‘ Muonio Alusta,” S. 
„ 76. Two, same. nest. 
„ 77. Two, same nest. 
„ 78. One, same place, from another nest. 
„ 79. Two, same place, from a third nest. 
Turnstone. Strepdlas collaris. Was found breeding very scantily 
to the east of the North Cape. One bird was watched upon an islet 
till it ran under a slab of stone, where its eggs lay upon an old nest 
of the Lemming. 
Lot 80. One, near Yardoe, N., the last Norwegian fort towards the 
Kussian frontier. 
Whimbrel. Numenius phceopus. Is plentiful in Lapland, where, 
in the northern districts at least, it entirely takes the place of the 
Curlew. 
Lot 81. Two, Lapland, 1854. 
Spotted Bedshank. Totanus fuscus. First discovered in 1854. 
( Vide Hewitson.^ Several more nests have been well identified in 
1855. Found, as it is, only in the far north, in the interior of the 
country, thinly scattered over the vast forests, its eggs can never 
become common. Much inquired after as they have been by Swedish 
and Norwegian ornithologists they are still unknown to them. 
Lot 82. One, Bowa,” F., whence also a nest was in the catalogue 
last year. These are richly blotched eggs. 
„ 83. One, same nest. 
„ 84. One, same nest. 
„ 85. One, Moas Lombola,” S., also a locality of last year. 
,, 86. One, same nest. 
„ 87. One, Ala Kyry,” F. A beautiful nest. 
„ 88. One, same nest. 
„ 89. One, same nest. 
Wood Sandpiper. Totanus glareola. Is a common bird in Lap- 
land, but many nests were not obtained there in 1855, which is the 
more to be regretted, as a series of complete nests of so variable an 
egg as the Wood Sandpiper is of gxeat interest. 
