161 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
Merevs serRrator (Linn.). 
_ The Red-breasted Merganser was common near the village 
of Koo-ray’-i-ka. I brought home skins of males in two plu- 
mages and one of a female. 
SoMATERIA SPECTABILIS (Linn.). 
Kitmanoff, the captain and part owner of the steamer 
‘ Yen-e-say’,’ in which I returned from Gol-cheek’-a to Yen- 
e-saisk, had a King Eider stuffed in his cabin. He told me 
it was shot at Gol-check’-a. Capt. Wiggins told me this bird 
breeds in great numbers together with the common Eider 
on a large island in the By-der-at’-sker-y bay. Both these 
birds are probably exclusively maritime in their habits, and 
are only accidentally seen so far from the coast. 
CotyMBus ADAmsI, Gray. 
Besides the Black-throated and Red-throated Divers, I was 
frequently told of a still larger species of Ga-gar’-a with a 
white bill which frequented the lakes on the tundra. 
Cotymsus arcricus, Linn. 
The Black-throated Diver was very common on the Yen- 
e-say’ from the Koo-ray’-i-ka to Gol-cheek’-a. 
CoLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Linn. 
The Red-throated Diver was not quite so common as the 
preceding species. The cries of these birds, exactly like the 
screams of a child in. great pain, were constantly heard during 
the grand crash of ice in which our first shipwreck occurred. 
STerna Macrura, Naum. 
On the 6th of June I saw the’ first Arctic Tern, and fund 
it abundant in various localities further north. 
Larus canus, Linn. 
The Common Gull arrived at the Koo-ray’-i-ka on the 1st 
of June, and remained to breed. I got fresh eggs on the 17th 
of June. As in the Petchora, so also in the Yen-e-say’ valley, 
I noticed its somewhat singular habit of perching in trees. 
I did not observe this species of Gull on the tundra. 
Larus ciavucus, Fabr. 
I did not sueceed in shooting a bird of this species ; but on 
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