464 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



Seebohm also found Willow Warblers common at this 

 locality, but did not see a single Little Stint by the side 

 of the inlet. Altogether he had a most interesting day. 



July 28. 



On Wednesday, the 28th of July, the gale continued 

 as fiercely as ever, so we had to give up hopes of seeing 

 the steamer that day. 



As w r e have no Ducks or other food, we had all to sally 

 forth to search for the same. 



We had a Kouropatki which Seebohm shot yesterday 

 for supper, and a lot of little birds for breakfast to-day 

 with three eggs far advanced in incubation. 



Piottuch with Feodor and Simeon, went in search of 

 the geese, Seebohm to shoot Dunlins and Waders, and I 

 took a west course to search for Ducks. 



Near the lake where we shot the young Ducks, I saw a 

 Bar-tailed Godwit, and three times stalked him as he sat 

 bunched up like a Woodcock with head drawn back and 

 bill pointing straight before him, but he was very shy and 

 I did not get a shot. He was a handsome bird, all the 

 breast showing dark chestnut. 



Piottuch mentioned the other day that he had also seen 

 one Black Kedshank (?). 



I shot a Grey Plover, but never got within range of 

 any Ducks, and indeed saw very few of the latter. 



I passed the lake, went on some six or seven versts, 

 passing other lakes, and discovered another inlet from the 

 sea very similar in appearance to the one already described, 

 except in its shape, which is long and narrow and runs 

 parallel with the shore. There is a ridge of gravel and 

 sand, and a row of drift logs and branches next the sea ; 

 and a green meadow inside, with however only two or 

 three pools, but with dry, bare patches of mud where 

 shallow pools had once been. Then comes the inlet and 



