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THE IBIS. 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. XVIII. APRIL 1905. 



XIII. — An Oological Journey to Russia. 

 By H. E. Dresser. 



Being anxious to obtain certain further details respecting 

 European oology, I decided to visit Finland and Russia 

 during last spring, and to examine several of the largest egg- 

 collections in those countries. I left Hull for Helsingfors 

 on the 18th of May and arrived on the 23rd, having stayed 

 for half a day at Copenhagen on the way. At Helsingfors 

 I at once looked up my old friend Professor Palmen ; but 

 the series of eggs in the Museum there is not large and con- 

 tains little of interest, though Mr. I. A. Sandman, an old corre^ 

 spondent of mine, has a very good collection, which I spent the 

 best part of a day in inspecting. He has collected in various 

 parts of Finland, and has several clutches of the eggs of 

 Emberiza rustica taken in North-East Finland, besides speci- 

 mens of those of Cuculus canorus from nests of Saxicola 

 oenanthe, Ruticilla phcenicurus, Fringilla moniifringilla, Turdus 

 pilaris, and Anthus cervinus. After spending three days at 

 Helsingfors I went to Tammefors to visit Dr. Hougberg, 

 who has, perhaps, the largest oological collection in Finland. 

 His country-house is beautifully situated on a well-wooded 

 tongue of land jutting out into the lake, and in most of 

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