2i8 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



former place, and only stayed two days at the latter. He 

 made a complete catalogue (or bare list) of the birds in the 

 Archangel Musemn, which we are to copy out to-morrow 

 at the Museum here (see antea p. 209). 



We then walked through the Hermitage and Picture 

 Galleries. One picture by a Eussian artist — Ivanofsky — 

 struck me as wonderfully executed. It was a large piece 

 of canvas representing a large raft and human beings 

 tossing about on a strong sea at sunset. It is nearly all 

 cloud and wave and sunlight, but the rendering of the 

 hollow green transparent wave with foam on top and the 

 dripping water from the half-submerged end of the raft, 

 and the red glory of the reflected rays of the setting sun, 

 are beyond my power to describe. Then, besides the 

 pictures, examples of Kaphael, Murillo, etc., there are the 

 wondrous vases of malachite and lapis-lazuli, and other 

 stones, etc., occupying the centre of the grand lofty 

 halls, and much more which I need not describe here. 



Then, after lunch at the hotel, we went to the frorien 

 market, accompanied by one of our acquaintances of last 

 night, one of Mr. Treeck's clerks, who has been most 

 kind and obliging in assisting us all this morning. 



Here we purchased fifteen Wax wings,* with a view to 



* Specimens of Ampelis garrulus. 



S. 1. Ampelis garrulus ? St. Petersbourg frozen market. 



Sex? J. markings on wings. AVax medium 



size. No wax on plain secondaries. None 



on tail. Upper tail coverts dark chestnut. 

 2. Ditto S V. marks. Wax large. None on plain 



secondaries or tail. Upper tail coverts dark 



chestnut. 

 S. 3. Ditto 3 I. marks. Wax small. None on plain 



secondaries, but rudiments on tail. Upjoer 



tail coverts dark chestnut. 



