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At one place en route Bed- throated Pipits were seen 

 freely perching high in the willow-scrub, and two were 

 shot in the act. 



In sight of Alexievka our destination we landed on 

 a low sandy and muddy island, where we saw two Great 

 Black-backed Gulls, and Seebohm identified a Buffon's 

 Skua a new bird to our list. 



We took eggs of Arctic Terns, and a Duck's nest and 

 down Pintail, I believe. 



We were surprised to meet again with our little friend, 

 the Siberian Chiffchaff, ' cheveting ' away amongst the 

 scrub ; and two examples were shot. 



Seven Swans were swimming off the shore, and it was 

 they that drew us off first in pursuit. 



A Larus cachinnans was on the sand alongside the two 

 Greater Black-backed Gulls the latter a new bird for 

 our list. 



Stints were common, but not breeding, as far as we 

 could judge. 



Feodor, one of our boatmen, knocked down a Tern as 

 it stooped at him over its nest. 



A party of Kuffs and a few Phalaropes, a few Terek 

 Sandpipers and Kinged Plover on the sand, Sedge 

 Warblers and Ked-throated Pipits freely perching on the 

 scrub, and two or three of the Petchora Pipits singing 

 overhead, Black Scoters, Wigeon and Pintails, and three 

 large geese (probably Bean), and Keed Buntings and 

 Little Buntings, and Yellow-headed Wagtails and Willow 

 Wrens were about all the others seen. 



At Alexievka ' houses were appointed to us to dwell in,' 

 kindly put at our disposal by M. Arendt, and we got 

 comfortably settled down. 



Piottuch skins and sleeps in one little log-hut, and 

 I sleep in another, clean and comfortable, 9 feet by 

 9 feet. 



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