220 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



and other game, and quantities of dried mushrooms strung 

 in bunches. 



In the evening Ernst Craemers my old friend of the 

 Archangel trip dined with us at the table d'hote. He 

 has got our Samoyede dresses, coats, caps, gloves, and 

 felt boots. 



March 9. 



On Tuesday, the 9th of March, we called and saw 

 the Minister of the Interior, his Excellency General 

 Timascheff, who promised us by this evening a letter to 

 the Governor of Archangel. 



In the Museum we examined specimens types ? of 

 Sylvia middendorffil and also of S. eversmanni, and took 

 their diagnostic characters, as in the footnote.* 



We bought six sheets of the Archangel Government 

 General Map, also the ' Kusten gebirge Pae-choi,' in 

 two volumes. 



* Phylloscopus borealis Blasius. Phylloscopus sibilator. 



2nd and 6th about = 2nd and 4th = 



Bastard primary trifle longer 



than wing coverts shorter 



W.C. more tipped with white less 



Edges of primaries greenish- 

 brown bright yellow 



Phylloscopus viridanus (=P. mid- 

 Phylloscopus superciliosus ? dendorffii Meves). 



17th August. 8th June. 



Large Bastard Primaries do. 

 2nd primaries th inch less 



than longest Quite a quarter of an inch 



Shorter bird longer 



Smaller bird larger - 



Yellow comes round the nape not 



Pliylloscopus coronata. 

 Bastard primaries longer than wing-coverts. 

 2nd primaries T \ths shorter than 4th. 

 About = in size with S. eversmanni. 

 Larger than Ph. middendorffii. 



