220 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



and other game, and quantities of dried mushrooms strung 

 in bunches. 



In the evening Ernst Craemers — my old friend of the 

 Archangel trip — dined with us at the table cVhote. He 

 has got our Samoyede dresses, coats, caps, gloves, and 

 felt boots. 



March 9. 



On Tuesday, the 9th of March, v^e called and sav^ 

 the Minister of the Interior, his Excellency General 

 Timascheff, w^ho promised us by this evening a letter to 

 the Governor of Archangel. 



In the Museum we examined specimens — types ? — of 

 Sylvia middendorjfii and also of S. eversmannl, and took 

 their diagnostic characters, as in the footnote.* 



We bought six sheets of the Archangel Government 

 General Map, also the ' Kusten gebirge Pae-choi,' in 

 two volumes. 



■'' Phylloscopus horealis Blasius. Plitjlloscopus sibilator. 



2nd and 6th about ^ 2nd and 4th = 



Bastard primary trifle longer 



than wing coverts — shorter — 



W.C. more tipped with white — less — 



Edges of primaries greenish- 

 brown — bright yellow 



Phylloscopus viridanus (=P. mid- 

 Phylloscopus supercillosus ? dendorffii Meves). 



17th August. 8th June. 



Large Bastard Primaries do. 

 2nd primaries ^th inch less 



than longest Quite a quarter of an inch 



Shorter bird longer — 



Smaller bird larger — 



Yellow comes round the nape not — 



Phylloscopus coronata. 

 Bastard primaries longer than wing-coverts. 

 2nd primaries jVths shorter than 4th. 

 About = in size with S. eversnianni. 

 Larger than Ph. iiiiddcudorifii. 



