48 1 Mr. If. V. Witlierl)y un Birth 



on June 3id, 1877, and anotl.er shot by Lawrow on Aug-. 

 2()tli, 1880, near Kandalax.] 



CUCULUS CANORUS. 



The Cuckoo was cotuuion from Kandalax to Pulozero. 



SURNIA ULULA. 



The only Owl we saw during the whole of our journey was 

 a single bii'd which probably belonged to this species. Pleske 

 found it common at Raz-Navolok, on the Imaudra, and uorth 

 of that point. 



[Pleske records two specimens of Asio accipitriniis from 

 near Kandalax (Lawrow) ; also Nyctala tengmalmi and Bubo 

 ignavus, from Kandalax (Mela).] 



Archibuteo lagopus. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard was met with here and there 

 throughout our route. 



Haliaetus albicilla. 



We saw several White-tailed Eagles at Kandalax and one 

 at Ekaterina, and climbed up to an immense, but empty, 

 uest said to belong to this species, at the top of a pine-tree 

 near Kandalax. 



Falco .esalon. 



A couple of Merlins, flying about an open heathy patch 

 of country near Raz-Navolok, Imandra, were the only Hawks 

 we identified. The scarcity of all Falconidae was remarkable. 



We did not see a sign of the Osprey. Writing in 1886 

 Pleske considered it a common breeding-bird in Russian 

 Lapland, and himself observed it at Kandalax and on tiie 

 Imandra. 



[Pleske records the following from the district : — Astur 

 palumharius from the Imandra (Sandeberg), Kola Bay 

 (Pleske), and Kaudalax (Mela) ; Accipiter nisus from Kandalax 

 (Sandeberg) ; and Falco gyrfako from Kola.] 



Phalacrocorax carbo. 



Fairly common on the coast, both at Kandalax and at 

 Ekaterina. Some nests in a clifF near Ekaterina contained 

 young on August 4th. 



