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by specimens in the museum. Passer montanus we identified 

 at Kargopole, but we did not meet with it at Archangel. 



42. Passer domesticus was abundant in Archangel and 

 in the villages. 



43. Fringilla coj:lebs. The Chaffinch was not very plen- 

 tiful, but was observed by us at Wosnesenskoi, Wuitegra, and 

 at Archangel; at the latter place it was much valued as a 

 cage-bird. 



44. Fringilla montifringilla. Bramblings were com- 

 mon, but not so abundant as in some parts of Norway. 



45. tEgiothus rufescens. Perhaps the most abundant 

 species of land bird in the Archangel district is the Lesser 

 Redpole, which is to be found in all kinds of situations, fre- 

 quenting alike pine and hard- wood forests, and breeding plen- 

 tifully in the gardens in the town. We obtained nests con- 

 taining fresh eggs during the whole time of our stay. 



Obs. — Chrysomitris spinus is represented in the museum. 



46. Carpodacus erythrinus. The Scarlet Bullfinch is not 

 very abundant in the Archangel district ; and, curiously, we 

 never met with the old males there, the only one we saw being 

 at the side of the Onega canal. We found the females fre- 

 quenting low underwood ; they are lively birds, constantly in 

 motion, and have a cry closely resembling that of the Green- 

 finch. 



47. Corythus enucleator. This is a very abundant species 

 in some localities, but was only obtained by us at Sujma. Two 

 Pine- Grosbeaks, which we brought home alive and placed in 

 the Zoological Gardens, were fed upon canary-seed and hemp- 

 seed, but on board ship took kindly to oats, of which our 

 cargo was mainly composed. These birds were very rapidly 

 losing their red plumage, the yellow appearing in patches on 

 the head and back, and this by means of a regular moult. 



48. Pyrrhula rubicilla. We only obtained one speci- 

 men, which seems to belong to the larger continental race 

 (P. coccinea, De Selys). 



