420 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



Anthus pratensis (linn.). Meadow Pipit. 



Stschewritza-lugowaya (R.). 



I have no evidence of the nesting of this bird on Kolguev. I first 

 saw the meadow pipit on August 1 5, when, after a clear time and full 

 moon, we had a visitation of a flock. 



FRINGILLID^E 



EMBERIZIN/E 



Plectrophanax nivalis (linn.). Snow Bunting. 

 Podoroschnik (R.). Oo-noint-sa (S.). 



The snow-bunting was established in many suitable spots, chiefly on 

 the coast of the upper western and eastern sides of the island. I took 

 six eggs from a nest on the Gusina on June 21. This nest, like others 

 which we found, was composed of dead grasses and lined with white 

 feathers of the willow-grouse. It was set deep down in a split in the peat 

 of the clay bank which sheltered our tent. We found at Scharok that a 

 pair of these birds had been nesting last year under the wooden covering 

 of a- Samoyed grave. During the last week in August a cock bird was 

 constantly sitting on the turf roof of a hut at Scharok and singing 

 splendidly, with a song which in some passages recalled that of the 

 chaffinch. 



On the little island of Horno, by Vardo, at least three nests of these 

 birds had flown by June 11. On the eastern side, I saw a cock bird 

 with food in its bill, and on the western side two lots of young were 

 flying about the rocks. On Kolguev, to the contrary, we saw a pair 

 building under the overhanging snow of a stream bank on June 27, and 

 young birds at Scharok first flew on July 11 ; and on July 24 I shot 

 a male bird who was changing plumage. 



Calcarius lapponicus (linn.). Lapland Bunting. 



Sizio (S.). 

 No bird, except perhaps the shore-lark, was more abundant than this 

 on Kolguev. 



