524 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



Mr. Piottuch returned to Archangel from Ust Zylma 

 by the summer route up the Zyhna and down the Peza 

 Rivers, an account of which journey he sent us in a letter 

 dated March, 1876. As he was not encumbered with 

 much luggage, the voyage from Ust Zylma to Archangel 

 occupied only twenty-eight days. The total distance 

 by this route is 1,364 versts (or 909^ English miles). 

 The following species of birds were met with during 

 his boat-voyage between Ust Zylma and Mezen, and 

 while crossing the watershed between the head waters 

 of the Zylma and Peza Rivers : — Dafila acuta, Nettion 

 crecca, Mareca pe^e/q^;^, Ckmgula glaucion, Tringa 

 tevwiinchi. Terekia cinerea were seen some sixty versts 

 up the Zylma, where the river-bottom was sandy ; higher 

 up, where the river-bed becomes stony, and frequent 

 portages must be made, he met with many Mergiis 

 alhcllus, FuUgula clangula, and Aquila chrysatus ('?), 

 and also saw in the woods Loxia leucoptera and Picus 

 martins, and large flocks of Perisoreus infaustus ; at the 

 watershed he shot an Asio asccpitrinus ; on the meadow- 

 land on the shores of the Peza River he found Emheriza 

 aureola abundant, as also Cganecula suecica ; Acredula 

 caudata, Loxia hifasciata, and L. curvirostra were 

 common, and Ducks were abundant. 



In the north-east Brandt has given a list of seventy 

 species in Hoffmann's* work on the Northern Ural. We 

 have treated of the birds of the Lower Petchora, and 

 there arc also Von Heuglin's 1 papers on Novaya Zemlya. 



'■ Hoffmann, ' Das nordlichc Ural und das Kustcn-gcbirgc Pacchoi,' 

 vol. ii., St. Petersbourg, 1856. 



f Von Hcuglin, ' Notes on the Birds of Novaja Zcnilia and Waigats 

 Island ' (' Ibis,' 1872, p. 60), and ' Nacbrichten liber Novaja-Scmlja, 

 Auszug aus einem Schreiben an Hrn. v. Middendorff ' {Bull. Ac. luqK 

 St. Petersbourg, xvi. p. 566; Mel. Biol. viii. pp. 220-225, 1872), and 

 ' Nachtrag zur Orn. von Novaja-Semlja und der Waigatsch-Insel ' 

 {Journal fur Orn., 1872, p, 464). 



