110 Messrs. H. Seebohm and J. A. Harvie Brown on 



the willows were few and far between, we almost always found 

 abundance of Temminck's Stints. 



The following list of the birds which we identified is neces- 

 sarily very meagre. It is impossible to exhaust the ornitho- 

 logy of any district in a single season. In a tract of country 

 extending three hundred miles north and south, the varieties 

 of situation, temperature, &c. are great. If we had remained 

 during the summer in the forests, we should no doubt have 

 added largely to our list of forest-birds ; on the other hand, 

 if we had pushed on to Varandai and the sea- coast, we should 

 have met with many Sea-ducks and other birds. There is 

 abundant scope for future work ; and we hope that other field- 

 naturalists wdll be encouraged by our great success, and take 

 up the running where we have left it off. 



Aquila chrysaetos (L.). 



Haliaetus albicilla (L.). 



We frequently saw Eagles both at Ust Zylma and on our 

 journey down the river. On the tundra we saw one near 

 Alexievka, and another near Dvoinik. The former species we 

 identified at Habariki, and the latter on various occasions. 



Pandion haliaetus (L.). 



The only Osprey we identified flew overhead at Habariki, 

 and when fired at dropped a large bunch of damp moss, which 

 doubtless it was bearing away to its nest. A nest, presumed 

 to be of this species, was seen in the distance, about 15 feet 

 from the top of an almost branchless larch in the same place. 



BUTEO LAGOPUS (Gm.). 



We only saw the Rough-legged Buzzard once, a fine light- 

 coloured male, sitting on the branch of a willow on the banks 

 of the Petchora, about 40 miles north of Ust Zylma. We 

 shot him as we silently drifted past, about midnight. 



Falco peregrinus, Gmel. 



The first we saw of this species was on the 13th May, at 

 Ust Zylma, the same day upon which we first saw Ducks. A 

 week later we visited the great feeding- grounds of the Ducks 

 on the banks of the river Zylma, and there also met with the 



