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is the riabchik, or so called Russian partridge, but some- 

 times called grouse. The wood-cock is .called Teterew,a,ad. 

 the wood-hen Teterka. The white grouse, ptarmigan, 

 Lagopus mutus, is known as Kuropatka ; the capercailzie 

 is known as Glukar ; the hazel grouse, Tetrao bonasia as 

 Pyg ; the quail as Perepelkct ; the partridge as Metsanka. 

 The snipe is called Doupel ; the duck, Torsa ; wild duck, 

 Dikaia utka ; wild grouse, Diki gus ; wild swan, Dlki 

 lebea. 



I have no sympathy with prince, peer, or peasant, 

 who finds sport in wounding, maiming, and killing 

 any animal fish, fowl or quadruped ; nor have I any 

 feeling of great respect for the skill and cunning which 

 they put in exercise to enable them to deceive and dis- 

 arm in order to destroy ; neither do I consider that the 

 subsequent utilisation as food of the carcases of the 

 animals they have killed in sport affects greatly the 

 character of their deed : it was for sport, not for food, 

 that the deed was done. With the barbarous or semi- 

 civilised hunter it is otherwise. With this passing remark, 

 to prevent misapprehension of my views while supplying 

 the preceding details, I proceed. 



SECTION III. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FOREST TREES. 



By Forst-Meister Alexander Gunther, of the Forest 

 Circuit of Petrazavodsk, I was supplied with the following 

 observations in regard to the ravages of insects in the 

 Government of Olonetz. 



c All the land lying to the west of Lake Onega, from the 

 river Svir in the south, the entire western coast of the 

 Onega, and from it to the town of Povonetz, and thence to 

 the Lake Vig and the river of the same name, and on to 

 the White Sea, with the large peninsula beyond, is a dis- 

 trict characterised by its fauna and flora. Of the pro- 

 priety of this statement I became fully satisfied after I 

 visited the Onega lake ; and a brief glance at a map may 



