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Mergus serrator (Linn.). 



The Red-breasted Merganser was common near the village 

 of Koo-ray'-i-ka. I brought home skins of males in two plu- 

 mages and one of a female. 



SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS (Linn.). 



KitmanoflP, the captain and part owner of the steamer 

 ' Yen-e-say'/ in which I returned from Gol-cheek'-a to Yen- 

 e-saisk, had a King Eider stuffed in his cabin. He told me 

 it Avas shot at Gol-cheek'-a. Capt. Wiggins told me this bird 

 breeds in great numbers together with the common Eider 

 on a large island in the By-der-at'-sker-y bay. Both these 

 birds are probably exclusively maritime in their ha])its, and 

 are only accidentally seen so far from the coast. 



CoLYMBUS ADAMSi, Gray. 



Besides the Black-throated and Red-throated Divers, I was 

 frequently told of a still larger species of Ga-gar' -a with a 

 white bill which frequented the lakes on the tundra. 



CoLYMBUS ARCTicuSj Linn. 



The Black-throated Diver was very common on the Yen- 

 e-say' from the Koo-ray'-i-ka to Gol-cheek'-a. 



CoLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Linn. 



The Red-throated Diver was not quite so common as the 

 preceding species. The cries of these birds, exactly like the 

 screams of a child in great pain, were constantly heard during 

 the grand crash of ice in which our first shipwreck occurred. 



Sterna macruba, Naum. 



On the 6th of June I saw the first Arctic Tern, and found 

 it abundant in various localities further north. 



Larus canus, Linn. 



The Common Gull arrived at the Koo-ray'-i-ka on the 1st 

 of June, and remained to breed. I got fresh eggs on the 17th 

 of June. As in the Petchora, so also in the Yen-e-say' valley, 

 I noticed its somewhat singular habit of perching in trees. 

 I did not observe this species of Gull on the tundra. 



Larus glaucus, Fabr. 



I did not succeed in shooting a bird of this species ; but on 



