xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



FROM YENESEISK TO TOMSK. 



•Once more in Yeneseisk —Country on the Banks of the Yenesei — Moulting 

 Birds — Blyth's Grass-warbler — Nordenskiold's Goods — A Holiday — A Dinner 

 Party at the Ispravnik's — From Yeneseisk to Krasnoyarsk — Three days at 

 Krasnoyarsk — The Club — Telegraph Communication — Scurvy amongst the 

 Tungusks — The Neighbouring Country — From Krasnoyarsk to Tomsk — 

 Magnificence of the Autumn Foliage — The Villages— The Birds — Difficulties 

 in the Way — A Friendly Ispravnik — Tomsk — The Wreck of the Thames. 



Pp. 458-468 



CHAPTER XLV. 



FROM TOMSK TO PERM. 



From Tomsk to Tiumen — An Old Acquaintance — Cost of Steamboat Travelling — 

 Cooking — Tobolsk — Contrast between Russian and Tatar Villages — Threading 

 the Labyrinth of the Tura — The Black Kite — Cormorants— Asiatic White 

 Crane — Notes of Sandpipers — Tiumen — Russian Hotel Accommodation— Bad 

 Roads — Ekaterinburg — Recrossing the Ural — Iron-works — Kongur — New 

 Railways — The Big Village Pp. 469-478 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



HOMEWARD BOUND. 



Perm — De-Tatarisation of Russia — The Siberiak — Heavy Rain — Autumnal Tints 

 — Kazan — Search for a Professor — The Museum — Tatars — Steamboat Accident 

 — The Volga — Nishni Novgorod — Moscow— Its Museum — St. Petersburg. 



Pp. 479-486 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



RUSSIAN CORRUPTION. 



St. Petersburg — The Turkish War — Corruption of Russian Officials — Commercial 

 Morality — Russian Servants — Turkish Misrule — Christianity of the Turks — 

 Childishness of the Russian Peasants — Russian Conservatism — Financial 

 Condition of Russia ......... Pp. 487-496 



CHAPTER XLVni. 



RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS. 



Ornithological Results of the Trip — Siberian Forms of Birds — Discoveries of 

 Pallas — Comparison of European and Siberian Birds — Interbreeding of 

 Allied Species — Affinity of European and Japanese Species — Sub-species — 

 Conclusion ........... Pp. 497-504 



Index Pp. 505-512 



