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fluffy plumage. They generally perch close to the trunk of 

 a pine, and mount up in cork-screw fashion, hopping from 

 branch to branch, in search of beetles, which seem to con- 

 stitute their principal food. They will carry off a heavy shot, 

 and when mortally wounded cling to the branches with great 

 tenacity. We found one empty nest, built principally of 

 lichens, placed close to the stem of a pine, not more than 

 eight feet from the ground. 



Obs. — One specimen of Columba palumbus was seen at Wui- 

 tegra, and another at Kargopole. 



56. Lagopits albus. — The Willow- Grouse is very common, 

 frequenting principally the pine-woods, where long narrow 

 strips of marshy ground, covered with cotton-grass and cran- 

 berries, and studded with alders and willows, run at intervals 

 parallel with one another. We do not remember an instance 

 of meeting with Willow- Grouse in any other kind of ground. 



57. Tetrao urogallus. Of this species we obtained the 

 young in down. 



58. Tetrao tetrix is not apparently a very abundant species. 

 We obtained the young. 



59. Tetrastes bonasia. — This beautiful species does not 

 appear to be so very abundant in the neighbourhood of Arch- 

 angel, and is only found there in certain localities. We were 

 informed that Hazel-Grouse are much more plentiful further 

 to the north and east ; and the great numbers of this delicious 

 game-bird which arrive at St. Petersburg later in the season, 

 though sent from Archangel, are not, we believe, obtained in 

 the first instance near Archangel, but at some distance from 

 the town. The very peculiar whistle of the " Raibchick " is 

 imitated by the Russian sportsman on a small instrument 

 made of a quill, and the bird thus seduced within range ; but 

 the principal destruction is by means of ingeniously laid snares 

 of horse-hair. 



Obs. — In the museum is a specimen of Syrrhajrtes pa- 

 radoxus. 



60. Ortygion coturnix. At Sujma we saw two Quails in 



