^"i M ' 1 Cliu-AND, Contents oj Siuniac/is and Crot^s of Birds. Q5 



Limosa novae-zealandiae (M. I'lj. H. ()24). r>;inc(l-iunii>c(l (lodwit. 

 ((0 (irass and a lew small seeds. 

 (/') Cut-wonn and eaitliwoini : shell iragmcnts. 



Heteropygia aurita (H. acuminata) (M. i8i, H. 634). Sluup-taikd 

 Stint (Marsh Tringa). 



((0 {!)) (iastropods ; grass ; insect larvft. 

 Sula cyanops (M. 244. H. 731). Masked (iannet. 



(^0 Flying-tish. 



{b) (c) Fish remains. 

 Halcyon vagans (M. 393). New Zealand Kinglisher. 



(«) Caterpillars ; also many short-horned grasslioi)pers. 



{b) Spiders ; beetles. 



{c) Short-horned grasshoppers. 

 Zosterops strenua (M. 718). 



Fruit (not recognizable). 

 Aplonis fuscus (M. 855). 



Land mollusc ; a native fruit. 

 Strepera graculina (M. 875. H. 4O). Pied Crow-Shrike. 



(a) {b) (t) ((0 (f) (/) [g) Fruits in all ; pandanus fruit in one. 



Australian Birds in Siberia. 



By Sergius A. Buturlin, F.M.B.O.U., Wesenberg, Russia. 



I HAVE studied our birds from 1887 — first on the middle Volga 

 (where lies the home of my parents), then about Lake Ladoga 

 and in the Baltic Provinces, and made several trips to Arkh- 

 angelsk Government, Kolguev, and Novaia Zemlia, and on the 

 middle Irtysh and upper Ob valleys, central Siberia. All the 

 year 1905 I studied the bird-life in the Kolyma and Indigirka 

 basins, and collected about 7,000 specimens (skins) and 700 eggs 

 in Yakutsk Government. Besides, I have studied all or most 

 collections in the museums of St. Petersburg, Moskwa, Warsaw, 

 Kiev, Tiflis, Semipolatinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, and 

 Vladivostock. Therefore I may claim to know the birds of the 

 Russian Empire well enough — only too well to know what 

 immense gaps in our knowledge still exist. 



So far, I know we have 48 forms in common with Australia. 

 Among them, three are only exceptionally rare visitors to Russian 

 limits : Piiffmus griseus (Sombre Petrel) is even not yet trust- 

 worthily recorded, Sula piscator (Masked Gannet) was once j)ro- 

 cured in De Castries Bay, and Antigone australasiana (Australian 

 Crane) in Yakutsk Government.* I have carefully studied this 

 last specimen. It is without doubt an adult (at least two years 

 old) of this species, though much smaller in all dimensions than 



* This "Native Coni])anion " may have escaped from some Zoological 

 Gardens. — Eds. 



