FROM MEKITZA TO KUYA ON A ROSPOSKI. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Results of the trip — Summer in the Arctic regions — Circumpolar birds — Birds 

 confined to the eastern hemisphere — Various ranges of birds — Migration of 

 birds — Dates of arrival — Probable route — Conclusion. 



The results of our somewhat adventurous journey exceeded 

 our most sanguine hopes. 



Of the half-dozen British birds, the discovery of whose 

 breeding-grounds had baffled the efforts of our ornithologists 

 for so long, we succeeded in bringing home identified esr^s 

 of three — the grey plover, the little stint, and Bewick's swan. 

 Of the remaining three, two, the sanderling and the knot, 

 were found breeding by Captain Fielden, in lat. 82°, during 

 the Nares Arctic expedition, but the breeding-grounds of 



