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were bluish grey instead of brown. There was a distinct 

 white superciliary streak over each eye, extending down each 

 side of the neck and almost meeting on the forehead. The 

 feathers on the crown of the head, on the back, including 

 the bastard wings, and on the tail were richly edged with 

 rufous ochre. The red on the neck was entirely wanting ; and 

 the dusky band across the breast was broader and faded almost 

 imperceptibly into the white of the belly. The soft and flex- 

 ible bill certainly indicates immature birds ; but, on the other 

 hand, the fact that we caught three young in down, only 

 recently hatched, on the same day, and shot several adult 

 birds in the moult about the same time, and obtained most 

 of our fresh eggs of this species between 20th June and 4th 

 July, points to an early assumption of the winter plumage of 

 adult birds. 



TOTANUS GLOTTIS (L.). 



We first identified the Greenshank at Ust Zylma by its 

 well-known note, and saw it flying high overhead. This was 

 on the ]9th May, when the snow still lay deep in the woods 

 but was disappearing from the higher parts of the meadows 

 along the course of the river Zylma. We afterwards found 

 it abundant at Habariki, frequenting the large marsh in the 

 forest behind the village, and the sides of the numerous pools 

 and marshy hollows which are there found thi'ough the woods. 

 We obtained eggs at Habariki on the 11th June. We did 

 not again meet with the species to the northward. 



ToTANUS GLAREOLA (L.). 



The first Wood- Sandpipers were shot by us at Ust Zylma 

 on the 26th May. They were frequenting the pools in the 

 middle of the town, and were exceedingly tame, allowing us 

 to approach within a few yards of them. They were very 

 common at Habariki, and we shot specimens, which had 

 perched on the tops of the high dead larches, quite 70 feet 

 from the ground. Northward they became scarcer ; and be- 

 tween Abramoff and Alexievka we lost sight of them altogether. 

 Later, however, on the tundra we found a few pairs, and 

 obtained the young at Vassilkova. We did not see any 

 further north than Stanavoialachta. 



