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Lot 8. One, Lapland.” History of this nest imperfect. Believed 
to have been taken on the Eussian side of the frontier, near 
Muonioniska. The present egg shews a continued mass of 
colour round the large end. 
„ 9. Two, same nest. 
The Gyrfalcon, of falconers. FaZco gyrfalco, Schlegel, Revue 
critique {Le Gerfaut, Schlegel Fauconnerier) This is the true Gyr- 
falcon, at present so little generally known in England, though 
Schlegel says the young have occurred here, as they do constantly 
in Holland. In immature plumage, the bird is scarcely to be dis- 
tinguished from the immature Icelanders. Whether to be considered 
a distinct species or not this Lapland, and probably Siberian, form, 
must be carefully separated from the Greenland and Iceland ones, 
which are so well known through the researches of Mr. Hancock. 
Schlegel, writing three or four years ago, says that nothing is 
known of its nidification; these eggs are, therefore, probably the 
first that have been seen by naturalists. Mr. Wolley, in 1854 and 
1855, had the pleasure of taking four nests ^^with his own hands.” 
It breeds in the most remote districts, commencing whilst the winter’s 
snow is still undiminished. The adult birds seem to confine them- 
selves to the far north of the country, and they are the only species 
or race of the great falcon which occurs in Lapland. 
Lot 10. One, “Motka Uoma” S., not many mil^s from the Eock of 
the three nations.” The siege of this nest occupied twenty- 
four consecutive hours, it was in such a dangerous place. 
The eggs were nearly hatching. 
„ 11. One, same nest. 
„ 12. One, same nest. 
Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrinus. Breeds in the lower regions 
of the country where the Gyrfalcon never takes up its abode ; but it 
also seems to have a higher range in the mountains than the latter 
bird. Where there are no convenient cliffs, it lays its eggs on the 
ground in some extensive marsh. 
Lot 13. One, ‘‘Hanhi Maa” F., 1854. Of the same lot as those sold 
last year from a marsh in the most central part of Lapland. 
Merlin. Faleo cesalon. The Sparrow-hawk being the only other 
kind of small hawk which occurs in Lapland, and that but scarcely, 
these eggs are free from the “historic doubts” which may often be 
attached to eggs attributed to the Merlin from countries where the 
Kestrel and other nearly allied hawks are to be found. In Lapland 
it breeds in trees. 
Lot 14. Two, Toras Sieppi, F. 
