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TOTANUS CALIDRIS (L.). 



The Redshank was identified along the margins of the 

 etangs bordering the Mediterranean. 



Larus cachinnans, Pall. 



On the etangs and the Mediterranean coast. 



Larus puscus, L. 



An immature example examined in the flesh at Banyuls. 



PuFFiNUs YELKOUAN, Acerbi. 



At Banyuls an individual of this representative of our 

 Manx Shearwater was handled in the flesh. 



VIII. — Notes on Birds observed on the Yenisei River, Siberia, 

 in 1895. By H. Leyborne Popham. 



I LEFT England on March 8th, 1895^ with the object of 

 adding something, if possible, to what is known of the birds 

 frequenting the mighty Yenisei River. I was accompanied 

 by Mr. C. Boyce Hill, and by the mate of my yacht 

 (McGarry) as bird-skinner. In spite of a letter from the 

 Russian Embassy in London, our guns were taken away at 

 the frontier, and did not reach Moscow till ten days later. 

 This delay almost proved fatal to our chance of reaching 

 Yeniseisk by sledge, as when we arrived at the end of the 

 railway at Omsk, on March 28th, the snow had almost dis- 

 appeared. However, after dragging the sledges .sometimes 

 through water and sometimes over the bare ground, Avith at 

 times as many as five horses to each sledge, we eventually, 

 on April 15th, arrived, in the relics of our '^pavoskas," at 

 Yeniseisk. Here we were most hospitably entertained by 

 the mayor of the town, Mr. Vostrotine, for seven weeks, 

 waiting for the break-up of the ice and the departure of the 

 first trading steamer down the river. We occupied our time 

 in the purchase and fitting-out of a " lodka," a sort of flat- 

 bottomed house-boat, and in collecting a few specimens of 

 the birds as they arrived from the south. On June 7th 

 we tied our boat on behind a long string of barges, and were 



