INDEX 



Note. — The numbers ofpa^es indicating illustrations are in italics. 



Accentor montanellus, 360 

 Acrocephalus dumetonan, 454 

 Aeuckens, Mr., 199, 202 

 Alexievka, 131, ijj; life at, 134: birds 



at, 135, 136; leave, 143; manager at, 



186; final departure from, 230 

 Alston, Mr. E. R., 4, 19 

 Anser erythropus, 326 

 Anthus batc/iianensis, gustavi, seebohmi, 



127 (note) 

 Archangel, Arrival at, 13; its decline 



in importance, 15; Samoyede chooms 



at, 17; birds, 19; intense cold at, 20; 



departure from, 20 ; discovery of, 248 

 Arctic Circle, 126; as breeding-ground, 



202 ; its flora, 229 

 -•Vrctic tern, 124 

 Arendt, Capt., 43, 48 seij., 72, 209, 230 



B 



Barn-sw.\llovv, 103, 104, 457 



Bear, as food, 76 



Birds, as food, 197, 217; circumpolar 

 species, 237 ; confined to Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere, 237 ; ranges of, 239 ; migratory, 

 their dates of arrival, 241 ; late breeders, 

 243 ; scarcity of, 304 ; geographical 

 range of, 420; Siberian compared with 

 European, 500 



Birse, Mr. Charles, 13, 20 



Blackcock, 302 



Boats, 119 ; mode of propelling, 145, 184 ; 

 Russian lodkas, 248 ; navigation in 

 shallow water, 446, 447 



Bogdanoff, on the birds of the Volga, 188 



Boiling, Mr., on crows, 271, 363 ; goes ta 

 Yeneseisk, 430 



Bolshanivagorskia, Arrive at, 29 



Bolvanskaya Bay, 184, 219 



Bojiasa betiilina, 46, 70 



Boulegan, M., 34, 41 



Boundary between Europe and Asia, 2jj, 

 261 



Breeding-grounds, of British birds, 4 ; of 

 knot, p4 (note) ; of hooded crow, 13; of 

 Siberian pipit, 127 (note) ; of Bewick's 

 swan, 152; of little stint, 183, 185, 187 ; 

 of yellow-browed warbler, 201 ; at 

 Dvoinik tundra, 212-215 • ^'^ curlew 

 sandpiper, 236 (note) ; of nutcracker, 

 370 



Brehm, Dr., 127 (note) 



Brooks, Mr., on yellow-browed warbler, 



371 

 Bubo maximus, 71 

 Bullfinch, Northern, 13, 19, 34, 54; scarlet, 



118 ; song of, 3t;8 

 Buntings, Snow-, 24, 26, 44 ; song of, 45 ; 



on Petchora, 46 ; reed-bunting, 80. 81 ; 



Lapland bunting, 103 ; Little bunting, 



364 



Capercailzie, 25, 33, 44, 46, 302 



Carpodacus crythrinus, 118, 358 



Castren, 5, 40 



Chancellor, Richard, 248 



Chetta river, 395 



Chiffchaff, Siberian, 92, 135 ; on Kureika, 



336 ; habits and song, 361, 377 

 Chooms, 17; of Samoyedes, ./<?,• interior 



of, 63 ; erection of, jg^ ; of \'uraks, 399 

 " Chorna chaika,' 410 

 Churches, "Old Believers," j6 



