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curiosity of the inhabitants at the villages or stations was also 

 more noticeable from day to day; and, as they reached farther to 

 the eastward, the native love of rude ornamentation and carving 

 on the road-side crosses was also observed. After six days and 

 nights of sledge-travel, they arrived at Ust Zylma on the loth 

 April. Here they remained until the 10th June, waiting for the 

 summer, and for the breaking up and clearing away of the ice on 

 the great river, which took place on the 22d May and ten 

 succeeding days. During this time much interesting information 

 regarding the Samoyedes was gathered, and a collection of imple- 

 ments, dresses, and harness for deer formed, which is destined 

 for the Christy Ethnological Museum in London. 



After describing Ust Zylma, a long straggling town of about 

 2000 inhabitants, on the east bank of the great river Petchora, 

 which rises far to the southward, in the government of Perm, and 

 after a course of over 1000 miles, flows into the Arctic Ocean, in 

 about 68 Jo north latitude; and having described in general terms 

 the willow-covered banks and islands between Ust Zylma and a 

 place called Alexievka, the port of the timber-trading company, 

 situated near the river, Mr Harvie-Brown enumerated the species 

 of birds which they met with, a hundred in number, between the 

 two places named. At Alexievka the travellers remained from the 

 19th June, the day of their arrival, till the 2d August, during 

 which time they added about another dozen of birds to their list. 

 They then embarked on their voyage home, round the North 

 Cape, in a small schooner, 149 tons register, the "Triad" of 

 Campbeltown, Captain Charles Taylor ; and, after a five weeks' 

 voyage, landed at Elsinore, reaching England on the 10th 

 September, having been absent six months. 



They met with and identified in all 113 species of birds, and 

 brought home over 1000 skins and 1000 eggs. An examination 

 of these specimens, and of the travellers' journals, resulted in the 

 following papers, which it is recommended should be read in 

 connection with the present : — 



" ]N"otes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora " (" The Ibis " for 

 January, April, July, and October, 187G),byHenry Seebohm, F.Z.S., 

 and John A. Harvie-Brown. 



" Notes of a Journey to, and Ornithological Observations on, 

 the Lower Petchora in 1875," by J. A. Harvie-Brown; part of 

 which is printed in Proc. Eoy. Phys. Soc, Edin., 18 70, p. 8L 



