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to be left alone, running quickly after us like a little 

 dog. 



We picked this day a bit of wild camomile, just coming 

 into flower; Hyland found it growing on the roof of 

 Uano's hut ; for we climb up there when the weather is 

 clear to see how the ice is looking in the gulf. 



Black-throated divers were taking to-day a large and 

 new kind of fish. I could see them with the glass, but 

 not what kind they were. 



Hyland, who was out in the evening, brought back two 

 interesting birds. The first, a curlew sandpiper, he shot 

 among a lot of dunlins on the mud. 



This bird you will like to know something about. 



It is small, eight and a half inches long, and its 

 back is curved rather like that of the common curlew, 

 whence the name. These waders pass through our 

 country in spring on their way to nest, and return with 

 their young in August and September, when they remain 

 on our mud-flats for some little time. 



Yesterday, July 15th, twenty years ago, Mr. Seebohm 

 shot one out of a flock on the Petchora, and Dr. 

 Middendorf, in June, shot a bird on the Taimyr Pen- 

 insula, which would very soon have laid, for in the 

 oviduct was an egg partly covered with shell. That 

 is as near as we have got at present to a proper view 

 of the eo-gr Where does this bird nest? No one can 

 tell with certainty. 



We were not to find it nesting. This was the only 



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