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river Ijma and to a secluded lake in the midst of tall pine- 

 forest, one to Cholmogory, about 70 versts up the river from 

 Archangel, one to Waldushki, and a sixth trip to Sujma, a 

 village on the south shore of the White Sea, and distant from 

 Archangel about 90 versts. 



Having thus given a rough outline of the country, we will 

 now proceed to mention the birds which came under our 

 observation during our collecting-trips, adding as we proceed 

 such observations upon the more interesting species as may 

 suggest themselves upon a reperusal of our journals. 



We have numbered in the list only such species as were 

 procured by us in the Archangel district, or which came 

 under our own observation there. Others, which are repre- 

 sented in the Museum or in private collections, or which we 

 met with in our journey from St. Petersburg, are included 

 under the headings of Observations*. 



We left the bar at the mouth of the Maimax Channel on 

 the 3rd of August, and returned home round the North Cape. 



1. Falco subbuteo. Not uncommon. A male Hobby 

 was shot and eggs taken by us on one of the outer islands 

 of the delta on the 26th June. The nest was that of a 

 Hooded Crow ; and the eggs, three in number, were deeply 

 incubated. 



Gbs. — We saw Falco aesalon at Wosnesenskoi and Falco 

 tinnunculus at Wuitegra and Kargopole. At the latter 

 place Falco vespertinus was plentiful, perching on the fences 

 and telegraph-wires, and flying along the road in front of 

 us ; we did not observe it ourselves at Archangel, but saw 

 specimens in the Museum and in Herr Heinrich's collection. 

 In the Museum there are also examples of Falco gyrfalco and 

 Falco peregrinus. 



2. Pandion haliaetus. No Ospreys were seen by us ; but 

 we visited an eyry, which was said, by our guide, to have 

 been regularly occupied for the last ten years. This nest was 

 a huge structure, evidently of great age, placed on the very 



* We have followed Blasius's ' List of the Birds of Europe ' both as 

 regards arrangement and nomenclature. 



