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of these birds, and, returning later in the day, I shot 

 the third. 



Arriving at the top of the slope, we saw that the 

 tundra now sloped gradually away to the south and south- 

 east, and we had a somewhat clearer view of the distant 

 Pytkoff Mountains. A thin white mist lay along the 

 distant hollows of the tundra in a wide semicircle 

 between us and the mountains, having, at first sight, 

 the appearance of a long, almost uninterrupted, narrow 

 arm of the sea, stretching from the distant waters of 

 the Boluanski Bucht on the west almost to the Arctic 

 Ocean on the north-east. 



We came upon the old site of a Samoyede choom, 

 round which bones of Reindeer were strewed, and we 

 picked up a wooden ' paysik,' or button, one of the 

 fittings of the Reindeer's harness. (See Appendix C 

 on Samoyedes. 



Shortly afterwards we watched a Plover, and at last 

 shot it for identification. In the low sunlight it w r as 

 extremely difficult to identify at a distance. We were 

 both completely taken in, and thought it was a Golden 

 Plover. The double note and the single both occurred, 

 and made us desirous of securing the bird in order to 

 find whether or not the Golden Plover ever does utter 

 the double note. My impression was that it does do so, 

 but not commonly, and that I have heard the double 

 note in Scotland. This was a Grey Plover, and cer- 

 tainly a darker, duskier female than others we have 

 before obtained. 



While searching for another Grey Plover's nest further 

 on which, however, we did not find we shot a young 

 Lapland Bunting, and we also shot another young one 

 of the same species in an interesting stage of plumage. 



We now turned back towards the meadow, and struck 

 the bank of the Dvoinik River about U vcrsts from its 



