observed in the Kola Peninsii/a. 479 



cudcavourcfl to make the list of the birds we observed more 

 complete ])y comparisons with, and additions from, the 

 volume on birds in the ' Beitrjige zur Kentniss des Rns?- 

 ischen Reichcs ' by the Russian ornitbologist T, Pleske, 

 published in 1886. This book deals with the ornithology of 

 the whole of Russian Lapland, but in the following list only 

 those birds are referred to which Pleske mentions as occurring 

 on our route. Pleske traversed this route in 1880, and he 

 quotes freely from the observations of several other Russian 

 as well as Swedish and Finnish ornithologists, who worked 

 in the same district between the years 1810 and 1880. 



In quoting fi'om this book I have placed in parentheses the 

 name of Pleske^s authority for any record not made by hini- 

 selF. In all other cases the record is Pleske^s own. 



TURDUS ILIACUS. 

 TURDUS PILARIS. 



Both Redwings and Fieldfares were present along the 

 whole route from Kandalax to Ekaterina. They were, how- 

 ever, very unequally distributed as regards numbers, being 

 common in some places and rare in others. A nest of the 

 Fieldfare on the shores of the Imandra contained young of 

 about a week old on July 12th. 



[Pleske records Turdus musicus from Kandalax and the 

 Imandra (Mela), and from Kitsa, near Kola (Enwald).] 



CiNCLUS MELAXOGASTER. 



A pair of Dippers which we supposed to be ot" this species 

 frequented the river at Kitsa, near Kola. Pleske records it 

 from several localities on our route. 



Saxicola (ENANTHE. 



A Wheatear was not seen until we reached Pulozero, 

 about 45 miles south of Kola. From Pulozero northward 

 these birds became very common. Pleske records them as 

 very common in all parts. 



RuTICILLA PHffiNICURUS. 



The only Redstarts we saw consisted of a family of this 

 species a few miles south of Kola. Pleske mentions it as 

 rare. 



