PETCHORA 



j-3 



3 poods (36 lbs.) salt beef ... ... 8 roubles 57 kopeks 



1 pood Russian butter, and boxes, 



nails, etc. 

 5 lbs. coffee at 55 k. per lb.... 



1 lb. tea 



Knife and fork 



5 lbs. cotton-wool ... 



Pepper 



Afterwards M. Gladoscheff, the Pasreydnik, or chief 

 magistrate, called — we having called .on him yesterday — 

 and we exhibited our guns and etceteras. (M. Znaminsky 

 is the head of the police, or Priestoff, and is not, as we 

 for a long time believed, the Ispravnik.) M. Gladoscheff 

 is the judge to decide in matters of law for the peasants — 

 nisi prius — and M. Znaminsky is head of the criminal 

 department, and holds the same place in a small town as 

 the Ispravnik does in a larger town. 



We then went out for a little fresh air, taking our guns 

 and not expecting to shoot much, but in the town and on 

 the bank of the river we killed or saw the following new 

 arrivals : — 



Oystercatcher. 

 Barn Swallow. 

 Pinged Plover. 



Green Sandpiper. 

 Temminck's Stint. 

 Little Stint. 



Of these we obtained specimens of the three latter, also 

 of the Blue-headed Wagtail. The waders were intent 

 upon feeding, and we think they must only have very 

 lately arrived. There were four of the Green Sandpipers 

 feeding in a small stagnant marshy piece of ground with 

 a pool of liquid manure in the middle, in the town ; the 

 other waders were on the slipre, except one Piinged 

 Plover, which was also shot at one of the pools in the 

 town. 



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