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He wanted for eggs of Eagles ' Oreol ' 50 kop. per 



egg- 



For Yellow-breasted Buntings, 10 kop. per egg and nest, 



and bird 20 kop. 

 For * Kooksha ' Siberian Jay 1 rouble per egg, 30 kop. 



per bird. 



For * Yastrib 'Hawks 50 kop. 

 For ' Sovee ' Owls 50 kop. 

 For ' Diattil 'Woodpeckers. 

 For ' Jouravil ' Crane. 

 For ' Sveerastil ' Waxwing. 



And we excepted Tschaike (Gulls), Kraevke (Terns), 

 Ootke (Ducks), Drosd (Thrushes), Lastitchke (Swallows), 

 Varabe (Sparrows), Verone (Hooded Crows), Galke 

 (Jackdaws), Golube (Pigeons) and Serouske (Kedpolls). 

 He wanted 20 roubles to account, then asked 10 roubles, 

 and finally came down to half a rouble (begged, in fact) 

 but I told him he was so greedy we would give him 

 nothing. This is, however, always the method of trying 

 to make a bargain ! 



The photographs are on the whole a success, though 

 the group is not nearly so good as our summer one of 

 1872. In ' Schoub ' mine is fair, but bad in ' Malitza.' 

 Seebohm's are much more successful. 



April 2. 



The following are the birds we have observed about 

 Archangel : 



House Sparrow. Not the Tree Sparrow at all, though 

 it is the commoner species in the villages between 

 Vologda and Archangel. At a village on the Delta of the 

 Dvina, which we visited on Sunday last, only House 

 Sparrows were seen. 



Hooded Crows are very tame, and feed in the market- 

 place quite amicably along with the pigeons, 



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