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and eggs, Bean Goose's with down and snared bird, and 

 nests and eggs of Lapland Buntings, Eed-throated Pipits, 

 Yellow-headed Wagtails, Kedpolls, Eeed Buntings, and 

 Wigeons, and a nest of four Kuleek's * eggs, bigger than 

 Temminck's Stints' and smaller than Dunlins'. We 

 keep them at present. What can they be ? t 



June 24. 



Last night eggs showered in upon us again, of the 

 same species as before, and one nest of five eggs of the 

 Singing Pipit (the Petchora Pipit), large and lark-like. 

 Also a nest of Warblers' eggs, which are doubtless Willow 

 Wrens', and are much too large for those of such a small 

 bird as the Siberian Chiffchaff. 



We visited another Warbler's nest to-day with the 

 finder, whose services we have secured for the day by 

 paying the manager his day's wage. He had set a snare 

 when the nest contained one egg, but to-day there were 

 two, the bird having passed between the two nooses. 

 We hope to identify this nest yet. 



Coming back we took a nest of the Yellow-headed 

 Wagtail placed on the ground between two sticks among 

 long grass close to a rough footpath through the thicket. 



It may be here noted that the eggs of Grey Plover in 

 two nests had been incubated a few days before, but 

 perfectly fresh in the other two. (Ah, brother ' Ibises ' ! 

 omelette of Grey Plover's eggs is delightful.) The shells 

 when held to the light are bright green in all the nests, 

 and when scraped are also green. The Duck's eggs are 

 still all fresh. The Geese eggs of a week ago are badly 

 sat upon and are all we have got. The Bed-throated 

 Pipit's eggs are mostly sat upon. The Temminck's 

 Stint's are fresh or slightly incubated. The Phalarope's 



* ' Kuleek ' is a name generically applied by our men to Sandpipers. 

 f I forget whether we made them out or not, but I think not [1900]. 



