70 Messrs. Alston and Harvie Brown's 



The nests were not difficult to find by watching the bird's 

 return. They were simple hollows in the sand sparingly lined 

 with dry grass, and generally placed in the shelter of over- 

 hanging tufts of sea-bent. In no case did we find a nest more 

 than twenty yards from high-tide mark ; and most of those 

 we saw were much nearer the sea. Two nests were found in 

 the wrack left by some unusually high tide. The birds were 

 very tame, often tripping along the wet sand and feeding un- 

 concernedly within a few yards of where we were standing. 



Obs. — Calidris arenaria. There is one specimen of the 

 Sanderling in the museum. 



74'. Telmatias gallinago. One Common Snipe was seen 

 close to the town, but none were procured. 



75. Telmatias major. Great Snipe were not observed by 

 us in great numbers, as they had not yet begun to flock to 

 their autumn feeding-grounds in the islands. Family parties, 

 however, were met with in marshy woods ; and young were 

 obtained with the down only partially replaced by feathers. 



76. Numenius arquata. Curlews were common. We ob- 

 served this species repeatedly perching on low bushes, and 

 even on the very summit of high trees, especially on the open 

 ground in the neighbourhood of Sujma, where they were very 

 plentiful : in Scotland we have very seldom seen this bird 

 alight on a tree. 



77. Grus cinerea. The first examples of this fine bird 

 which we met with were paired birds, and were feeding within 

 200 yards of the canal which leads through the great tract of 

 marsh between Wosnesenskoi and Wuitegra, on the south 

 shore of Lake Onega. Afterwards in the Archangel market 

 we procured two young Cranes, and saw birds both at Chol- 

 mogory and on the outer islands, but did not succeed in shoot- 

 ing any specimens. The skeleton of one of the birds we ob- 

 tained is now in the museum of the University of Cambridge. 



78. Anser cinereus. We saw Grey Lag Geese in the 

 market j and a large flock of Grey Geese seen in the distance 

 on one of the outer islands probably belonged to this species. 



