100 Mr. A. Newton on Mr. J. Wolley's Discovery 
him that year; for, though another nest with five eggs was 
taken for him by one of his most trusty collectors on an island, 
Ajos-saari, in the Gulf of Bothnia, near Kemi-suu (the mouth of 
the Kemi River), the finder was induced to part with it to a 
Russian traveller for three silver rubles, “ the doctor having 
represented that Mr. Wolley had already as many as he wanted/' 
a statement certainly not in accordance with the facts; for Mr. 
Wolley had, in giving him a nest, promised that, if he had them 
to spare the next year, he would transmit specimens of the eggs 
to the museum at Helsingfors. This same person, whose zeal 
might have been commendable had it been qualified by either 
gratitude or good faith, previously informed Mr. Wolley that a 
naturalist in the Finnish capital had for some time offered a 
reward of fifty rubles (about £9) for a nest of the Waxwing, 
and suggested that the Sardio lads were entitled to the prize: 
whereupon Mr. Wolley immediately divided that sum (in addi¬ 
tion to the some hundred dollars they had already received) 
among all who were engaged in the glorious affair of the 7th of 
June, 1856, and at the same time wrote to the University of 
Helsingfors to say that he could not allow its authorities to pay 
for his discovery. A brief notice of the booty acquired by Dr. 
E. Nylander will be found in the Appendix to the last edition of 
p r ofessor Nilsson's excellent work*, communicated to him by 
Professor Alexander von Nordmann, who also furnished a more 
detailed account to the f Journal fur Ornithologie ' for the fol¬ 
lowing year, illustrated with figures from the specimens thus 
obtained f. 
The summer of 1858, when Mr. Wolley was with me in 
Iceland, was “ a great year for Waxwings." Not far from a 
hundred and fifty nests were found by persons in his employ¬ 
ment in Lapland, and some of them close to Muoniovara. It 
seems, as nearly as I have been able to ascertain, that no less 
than six hundred and sixty-six eggs were collected; and more 
than twenty more were obtained by Herr Keitel of Berlin, who 
happened, without I believe any expectation of the luck that 
w 7 as in store for him, to be that year on the Muonio River. A 
* Skand. Faun. Foglarna, ed. 3, i. p. 5/1. 
t Journal fur Ornithologie, 1858, p. 307 ; 185.9, pi. 1. 
