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remained three weeks, until the 3rd/16th September, and then 

 tried to push further north and east, but had finally to cast 

 anchor and take up their winter-quarters in 76^ 68' N. lat. and 

 95° 9' E. long, in the roadstead Sarja, where they remained 

 until the llth/24th August, 1901. Thence ornithological 

 expeditions were undertaken by Dr. Walter, the well-known 

 ornithologist, and Mr. Birulia along the shores o£ the main- 

 land, across the Taimyr Straits to the south coast of the so- 

 called Taimyr Gulf. Dr. Walter's ornithological notes were 

 published after his death, which took place at Kotelny Island 

 on the 21st December, 1902, and of these I have already given 

 an abbreviated translation [' Ibis,' 190J., pp. 228-235). 



After leaving the Taimyr coast the 'Sarja' took a north- 

 easterly course, rounded Cape Chelushkin, and made for the 

 New Siberian Islands, finally taking up her winter-quarters 

 on the west side of Kotelny Island opposite the southern end 

 of Belkorsky Island in Nerpitchi Bay. On the 25th May/ 

 7tli June Baron Toll, together with Mr. Th. G. Zeberg, 

 astronomer to the expedition, and two men from the Yansk 

 district, left the 'Sarja' and undertook an expedition to 

 Bennett Island, crossing in seal-skin canoes and leaving 

 instructions that the ' Sarja ' was to take them off from that 

 island. This the vessel was prevented from doing, owing 

 to the ice-barrier, and it appears from Baron Toll's papers, 

 afterwards recovered on Bennett Island by one of the two 

 relief expeditions sent in 1903, that he had at first intended 

 to winter on the island, but had afterwards decided to 

 attempt to return to the New Siberian Islands, rather late 

 in the season when the weather was uncertain and the ice 

 not firm. They left Bennett Island on the 26th October/ 

 8th November, but never reached the New Siberian Islands 

 and doubtless perished on the way. 



Mr. Birulia's notes on the birds observed during the 

 expedition are very long and diifuse, and I have therefore 

 deemed it advisable to give the following abbreviated trans- 

 lation of them : — 



Lagopus albus. — The Willow-Grouse appeared to commence 

 nidification about the middle of May, selecting places on the 



