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(7) Circus ceruginosus (L.). No. 22 in Tables. 



Goebel (10) includes this amongst those seen (?) at or near 

 Archangel ; and Meves (8) observed it both near Archangel 

 {vide Part II. notes, 'Annals/ July 1877, p. 18) and at Ptino- 

 OstroVj in Ladoga Sea. 



(8) Picus minor, L. No. 37 in Tables. 



Sabanaeff (22) says of this species that it does not apparently 

 go so far north as P. major and P. leuconotus in the Ural, nor 

 does he consider it so common there as these other species. 

 Seebohm and I, however, found it common on the Lower 

 Petchora as far north as Viski (67° 15' N.), to the exclusion of 

 other species of Woodpecker [vide Part I., ' Annals,' April 

 1877, p. 284). 



Obs. — Picus leuconotus, L., Picus cirris, Pall. (Sundev.), 

 with unspotted white underside, and the under tail-coverts 

 suffused with pale red, was found not commonly in the Ural 

 by Meves (No. 23, p. 432). We have, however, no distinct 

 authority to admit this form into our present district, Herr 

 Meves not having been so far north in Perm *. The state- 

 ment in Meves's paper [23], that he found^typical P. leuconotus 

 in S.E. Kussia, is a mistake, owing to a misprint for N.W. 

 Russia (Meves, in lit. April 1877). 



(9) Yunx torquilla, L. No. 41 in Tables. 



The only record I am at present able to find for the S.W. 

 is the one given by Meves as shot at Cholraogory ; but as this 

 comes to be included in the N. Division, I mark it with a 

 query here. Mejakoff records it as rather rare in the south 

 of Vologda, in the S.C. District, having only shot two speci- 

 mens. 



(10) Sturnus vulgaris, L. No. 43 in. Tables. 



Has occurred at St. Petersburg (Meves, 8, and Fischer, 

 Die Vogel des St. Petersburger Gouv.) ; but its range north- 

 wards is only occasional [vide Part II. I. c). It appears just 

 to reach our fauna in 60° N. in the east, at Pavda (Sabanaeff, 

 No. 22). 



* His route was by St. Petersburg, Moscow, Perm, Kungur, Ekaterine- 

 burg, and thence southward to the river Mjes; and his researches were 

 confined to the districts hang between 67° and SS"^ N. lat. 



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