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Of these birds one was as large as two fists, the other 
two were but half as large.” 
On the 16th of June he found another nest near Old 
Pithoea, on a steep hill called Brevikberget, and a pair 
of Eagle Owls, almost full grown but not able to fly. 
It was not, however, our good luck to be alike suc¬ 
cessful, although we traversed in search of them the pine- 
crested mountain ridges, the rocky steeps, and the snow- 
clad heights of the neighbouring country. In one in¬ 
stance only we had the gratification of seeing one of 
these noble birds at large, as it topped the heathery 
summit of the hill which we were climbing, and was lost 
to our anxious gaze. 
Mr. Wolley, whose ardent love for natural history has 
led him to follow in the footsteps of Linnaeus, and to 
explore the wilds of the north of Sweden, has been more 
successful than we were, as the following very interesting 
and graphic account will show. It is written from Hapa- 
randa. 
He expresses the great difficulty, which we also fully 
experienced in Norway, of “ hunting up the ornithological 
population of such a country,” where the birds are few, 
and the area over which they are scattered vast and 
almost inaccessible; he writes, “ First I was determined 
to find a nest of Strix bubo; many expeditions of some 
miles, and several days lost, have resulted in the finding 
of a single nest with two young ones and an egg just 
hatching, and this after inquiries at every place I have 
been to. It was on the 20th of May, and after climbing 
to the mysterious cave of Skulberg, that our road lay 
under a steep mountain-side broken up into crags and 
ledges of the character which is usually so attractive to 
birds of prey. There was a little village at the foot, and 
an old man pointed out the direction from which the 
