153. Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
more often from the summit of alarch tree. Ishot one from 
the top of a larch at least fourteen feet from the ground. 
CHARADRIUS FULVUS, Gmel. ; 
On the 5th of June I had the pleasure of shooting my first 
Asiatic Golden Plover. This bird is at once distinguishable 
from the last-mentioned species by its smaller size, and grey 
instead of white axillaries. A third distinction may also be 
found in the comparatively longer tarsus of the eastern bird. 
In its voice it exactly resembles the Grey Plover. I noticed 
all the three variations with which I am so familiar in the note 
of the latter bird, but remarked that the third variation, which 
I take to be a combination of the two others more rapidly 
uttered (see Dresser’s ‘ Birds of Europe,’ Appendix to the 
article on Squatarola helvetica), is much more frequently 
uttered by the Asiatic Golden Plover than by the Grey 
Plover. I secured many specimens of this interesting bird 
as it passed the Koo-ray’-i-ka on migration. I did not observe 
it again until we reached lat. 693°, on the open tundra just 
beyond the limit of forest-growth. Not a trace of a pine 
tree was to be seen; and the birches had dwindled. down to 
stunted bushes scarcely a foot high. I took a nest of Turdus 
fuscatus with young birds as I climbed up the steep bank 
where alders and willows still flourished luxuriantly, and had 
scarcely reached the top before I heard the cry of a Plover. 
The tundra was hilly, with lakes and swamps and bogs in the 
wide valleys and plains. I found myself upon an excellent 
piece of Plover-ground, covered more with moss and lichen 
than with grass, sprinkled with patches of bare pebbly ground, 
and interspersed with hummocky plains, where ground-fruits 
and gay flowers were growing. I soon caught sight of both 
male and female, and sat down with the intention of watching 
the latter onto the nest. After wasting half an hour, during - 
which the bird wandered uneasily round and round me with- 
out showing any partiality for a special locality, I came to 
the conclusion, either that the eggs were hatched, in which 
case my watching was in vain, or that I was so near the nest 
that the female dare not come on. The male had a splendid 
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