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viz. to Dvoinik, frequenting the low willow-bushes or knolls, 

 and avoiding the long level stretches of bare tundra. 



Tetrao tetrix, L. 



We only once met with this species, viz. between Yorsa and 

 Chuvinski, some forty versts north of Habariki, where we 

 foiuid a nest containing five eggs on an island. The sur- 

 rounding ground was covered with tall alder and birch ; and 

 long grass covered the raised bank which formed a break- 

 water between the river and a lagoon, and upon which the 

 nest was placed. The Greyhen Avas flushed off" the nest, but 

 not shot. 



Tetrao urogallus, L. 



As with the last species, many Capereaillie hens were 

 brought in for sale, at forty kopecs per brace. The peasants 

 do not shoot the males, as they are not considered good food. 

 Although we saw several Capereaillie cocks southward from 

 Ust Zylma, we met with none there in the forests, nor at 

 Habariki. 



Tetrastes bonasia (L.). 



Many of these birds were sold to us by the peasants, cost- 

 ing twenty kopecs per brace, at Ust Zylma; but we had not 

 the good luck to meet with any ourselves, either at that place 

 or further north. Being a pine-forest species, it probably does 

 not occur further north than Bougaeffskia, which is said to 

 be upon the northern limit of the pine-woods along the river- 

 banks. 



Charadrius pluvialis, L. 



Many Golden Plovers passed during the time of migration, 

 alighting occasionally in the fields on the hill-slopes behind 

 the town to feed. At this season it is not difiicult to call 

 these migratory birds within range by an imitation of their 

 note. We obtained the first specimens on the 17th May, and 

 again met with the species at Habariki, where a single pair 

 was haunting the newly sown fields close behind the village. 

 After that a specimen was shot at Kuya by Seebohm, which 

 has one of the axillary feathers slightly splashed with smoky 



