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CONTRIBUTIONS ( 
TO THE 
ORNITHOLOGY OF SIBERIA. 
BY | 
HENRY SEEBOHM. 
During the last few years considerable efforts have been made, 
principally by Professor Nordenskidld of Stockholm and 
Captain Wiggins of Sunderland, to reopen to European com- 
merce the ancient route to Siberia through the Kara Sea. 
Last year (1876) Captain Wiggins left Sunderland on the 
8th of July in the arctic steam-yacht ‘Thames’ (about 120 
tons), and entered the Kara Sea on the 3rd Aug. He spent 
some time in surveying the coast, and anchored in the gulf 
of the Obb on the 7th of Sept. On the 23rd of Sept. 
he began to ascend the Yen-e-say’*; and on the 17th of 
October he had succeeded in making about a thousand knots 
* In this paper I have endeavoured to spell all the Russian proper 
names phonetically, showing also the syllable upon which the accent must 
be laid, a matter of great importance in the Russian language. 
~m”AYiLE De rere, 
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