PET CHORA 323 



We also bagged a $ Stonechat * and a ? Blue-headed 

 Wagtail. We also fired at a flock of Lapland Buntings 

 passing over, and brought down a female. Those pass- 

 ing now seem to rest less than the earlier arrivals. The 

 fields, upon which the manure is now all spread, seem to 

 be almost bare of bird life. Pipits are still migrating, 

 passing over towards the north and not resting much. 

 Gulls have apparently disappeared, and the last we saw 

 were on Friday last, the 21st. Snow Buntings are gone, 

 and following them the Merlins ; the last we saw of these 

 two species were on the 18th. The last Shore Larks were 

 seen also on the 21st, as we supposed, but this evening a 

 small flock was seen just behind our house, in which 

 also were a few Lapland Buntings, from which flock 

 Seebohm killed two Shore Larks and one Bunting, all 

 males. 



May 25. 



On Tuesday, the 25th of May, the only new arrival 

 was the Crane. We were out at 5 a.m. again. In the 

 morning there was thick mist in the valley and on the 

 hill, and scarcely a bird was heard in the woods save an 

 occasional Willow Warbler. All we got in the woods 

 was one Bluethroat. 



Coming home we found a flock of Lapland Buntings 

 and another of Shore Larks, and bagged five of the former 

 and four of the latter. 



Afterwards we tried the valley where we got the 

 Siberian Chiffchaffs, with no better success. We saw a 

 flock of about thirty Blue-headed Wagtails, a Sea or 

 White-tailed Eagle, and two common Cranes were seen 

 flying steadily northward at a considerable height. One 



* The form we obtained on the Petchora was correctly assigned to 

 Pratincola indica, Blyth. See 4 Ibis,' Jan., 1876, and also original 

 appendix to same, p. 84, and as represented here v. infra. 



