430 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



TETRAONID^: 



Lagopus albus (J. f. GMELIN). Willow Grouse. 

 Koropatka (R.). Hbndiii (S.). 



My first notice of these birds, taken from my Journal for June i6, 

 the day we landed by the Kriva, runs — ' A grouse was very abundant. 

 The males were most conspicuous objects, and at one point near 

 Bewick Lakes we had twenty of them in view from the same position. 

 The hens as a rule sat [i.e. squatted] very close, almost until trodden 

 upon. The males either flew wildly and straight away, or else from 

 point to point within a distance of thirty or forty yards round us. Each 

 time, before settling, they rose with fixed wings a few feet up to a point, 

 like a toying wood-pigeon, and then shivered their wings at the point, 

 and, still shivering, settled.' 



On June 17 I found a nest containing twelve eggs near Sauchika 

 entry. On August 6 I obtained a cock bird who was changing plumage, 

 some red feathers appearing on the back and claws just ready to be 

 shed. On July 30 saw eight cocks together, and from then onwards 

 they continued packing. 



I did not notice any young till August 3. I came across, on that 

 day, two broods of cheepers who could fly thirty yards or more, and on 

 subsequent days found many. The chicks of a brood were then of very 

 unequal size. These broods were always amongst the willow, but 

 earlier in the summer we had chiefly found the bird on grassy patches 

 among peat. On August 14 found a brood in which the young were 

 nearly as big as the old. 



I was surprised to find that these birds do not cross to the mainland 

 in the autumn. The Samoyeds assured me that on Kolguev they 

 formed an important winter food of the foxes. 



CHARADRIIDyE 



Eudromias morinellus (linn.). Dotterel. 

 Zuek glup'oi (R.). 

 I saw a single bird on June 22 near the Gusina, and no others 

 but those referred to in the following note. July 4, 'Soon after 



