524 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



Mr. Piottuch returned to Archangel from Ust Zylma 

 by the summer route up the Zylma and down the Peza 

 Kivers, an account of which journey he sent us in a letter 

 dated March, 1876. As he was not encumbered with 

 much luggage, the voyage from Ust Zylma to Archangel 

 occupied only twenty-eight days. The total distance 

 by this route is 1,364 versts (or 909J English miles). 

 The following species of birds were met with during 

 his boat-voyage between Ust Zylma and Mezen, and 

 while crossing the watershed between the head waters 

 of the Zylma and Peza Kivers : Dafila acuta, Nettion 

 crecca, Mareca penelope, Clangula glaucion, Tringa 

 temmincki. Terekia cinerea were seen some sixty versts 

 up the Zylma, where the river-bottom was sandy ; higher 

 up, where the river-bed becomes stony, and frequent 

 portages must be made, he met with many Mergus 

 albellus, Fuligula clangula, and Aquila chryscetus (?), 

 and also saw in the woods Loxia leucoptera and Picus 

 martins, and large flocks of Perisoreus infaustus ; at the 

 watershed he shot an Asio ascepitrinus ; on the meadow- 

 land on the shores of the Peza Eiver he found Emberiza 

 aureola abundant, as also Cyanecula suecica ; Acredula 

 caudata, Loxia bifasciata, and L. curvirostra were 

 common, and Ducks were abundant. 



In the north-east Brandt has given a list of seventy 

 species in Hoffmann's* work on the Northern Ural. We 

 have treated of the birds of the Lower Petchora, and 

 there are also Von Heuglin's t papers on Novaya Zemlya. 



* Hoffmann, ' Das nordliche Ural und das Kusten-gebirge Paechoi,' 

 vol. ii., St. Petersbourg, 1856. 



f Von Heuglin, ' Notes on the Birds of Novaja Zemlia and Waigats 

 Island ' (' Ibis,' 1872, p. 60), and ' Nachrichten iiber Novaja- Semi j a, 

 Auszug aus einem Schreiben an Hrn. v. Middendorff ' (Bull. Ac. Imp. 

 St. Petersbourg, xvi. p. 566; Mel. Biol. viii. pp. 220-225, 1872), and 

 'Nachtrag zur Orn. von Novaja-Semlja und der Waigatsch-Insel ' 

 (Journal fur Orn., 1872, p. 464). 



