FKINGILLIDvE. 
“I had made arrangements for working another part 
of the country, but I left a trusty Lap in strict charge to 
visit a spot in Finland, where I had ascertained that in 
previous years the bird had bred. On my return to that 
neighbourhood at the end of summer, I watched day 
after day for the arrival of my faithful Lap. The nights 
were already becoming dark, when one evening I saw 
the well-known figure in a boat approaching our strand. 
I had scarcely shouted welcome before his wallet was in 
my hand, and my English friends and myself were in 
triumphal procession to the house. First, made its ap¬ 
pearance, a grim wolfs head ; then came forth some rein¬ 
deer gad-flies ; next there was extracted an unknown 
nest; then a skinned Pine Grosbeak ; and, at last, were 
carefully unwrapped from a little case the wished-for 
eggs, and there they lay in all their fresh discovered 
beauty before us/' 
One of the eggs figured is from a nest which was first 
found on the twenty-seventh of May. It contained four 
eggs, and was about six feet from the ground, in a young 
spruce fir-tree. It did not touch the bole of the tree, and 
the branches about it were thin, short, and open ; and to 
identify them completely the hen was snared upon its 
nest. 
“ At Midsummer a nest was found with four fully- 
fledged young, about a hundred yards from the spot 
where the former nest had been. It is now in the British 
Museum. Externally it is made of remarkably open 
work of twigs and roots, generally in very long pieces. 
In the centre of the platform there is an inner bedding 
of barkless, fibrous roots, with a little of the hair-like 
lichen, which grows so abundantly on trees in Lapland 
forests." 
