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The Collection of Wild Birds’ Eggs and Nestlings in Sweden
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5 Capiuntur etiam aquaticae aues in vasculis littoralium arborum, ramis per
modum nidorum appensis: in quae anates praecipuem sese raecipiunt ad produ-
cendum oua & pullos, propter vulpeculas, am quibus in terra insestationem
patiuntur.
In the Swedish translation, the word “vasculum” is wrongly translated
“basket”!
6 In Hertfordshire in England, Peter Kalm noted in 1747 that he had there
seen “a special kind of iron crampons, which they use when they climb trees
to take young squirrels, crows’ nests or anything else” (Kolm 1, 1966, p. 198).
7 I can supplement Stora’s collection of material with the report that the
spoon was used at Røst in the Lofoten Islands in Norway to take the eggs of
the razorbill, (Alca torda). Deeply buried nests containing a single egg can only
be reached with the aid of “long, wooden sticks, to which a wooden ladle is
attached” (Grieg, 1964, p. 109, who quotes an article by Dorothea Schjoldager
in 1890).
8 To the information which he has produced in this connection, I may add
T. Scot-Ryen’s report from Troms County in Norway that there people took the
young of the smail cormorant in the same way. “The nestlings of the cormorant
are still salted and stored for winter food” (Scot-Ryen, 1941, p. 61).
* Pars magna /insularum/ a feris barbarisque nationibus incolitur, ex quibus
sunt qui piscibus atque ovis avium vivere existimantur.
10 As the reports about egg-collecting in central Osterbotten appear to be
sparse, I may recall a letter to the sheriff of Vorá in 1740, which mentions the
setting up of nesting-boxes for goldeneyes (Mennander, 1942, p. 538).
11 As regards the Estonian egg-collecting boxes, I have received further
information from the late Dr. F. Linnas (1936) and Dr. Ants Viires (1966).
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