FROM MEKITZA TO KUYA O.N A ROSPOSKI 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



RESULTS OF THE JOURNEY. 



Results of the Trip — Summer in the Arctic Regions — Circumpolar Birds 

 — Birds Confined to the Eastern Hemisphere — Various Ranges of Birds — 

 Migration of Birds — Dates of Arrival — Probable Route — Conclusion. 



The results of our somewhat adventurous journey ex- 

 ceeded our most sanguine hopes. 



Of the half-dozen British birds, the discovery of 

 whose breedinof-orrounds had baffled the efforts of our 

 ornithologists for so long, we succeeded in bringing 

 home identified eggs of three — the grey plover,* the 

 Little stint, and Bewick's swan. Of the remaining three, 

 two — the sanderling and the knot — were found breeding 



* Mr. Seebohm apparently overlooked the fact that Middendorff found the nest 

 of the grey plover on the Taimyr peninsula in 1843, and figured the egg in his 

 Sibirische Keise, Bd. II., Th. 2, plate 19, Fig. i. Tringa miiiuta was also found 

 nesting, though its eggs were not figured, by the same traveller. — Ed, 



