VOL. IX. J GREY PLOVER ON THE VENESEI. 165 



During the second week of August I visited Och 

 Marino, a dreary promontory about twenty miles further 

 down the estuary. Here the Grey Plover had un- 

 doubtedly bred, for I spent a long time in watching 

 a bird which showed much uneasiness at my presence, 

 shamming injury first at one spot and then at another. 

 I did not succeed in marking down the young, however. 



NESTING-PLACE OF GREY PLOVER ON THE GOLCHIKA RIVER. 

 (Photographed by Miss M. D. Haviland. ) 



Indeed, by that date they must have been nearly full 

 fledged. 



As this species was so local and scarce on the Yenesei, 

 I was not able to make many notes on its return migra- 

 tion. Like the Asiatic Golden Plover, it remains until 

 rather late in August, for I saw a flock of about fifteen 

 flying over the river on August 22nd, and saw a single 

 bird on the sandflats with Dunlins and Ringed Plover 

 on August 26th. These birds were probably migrants 

 from the north. I think that the reason that the bird 

 is so scarce in the middle of the estuary is the lack of 

 suitable habitat, for except at such spots as Och Marino, 



