STANAVIALACHTA. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



The tundra near the Yooshina river Golden plover's eggs Various nests 

 Lapland bunting Various birds Richardson's skua Various means of pro- 

 pelling our boat The tundra near Stanavialachta Eyrie of a peregrine falcon 

 Various nests Abundance of willow-grouse Nest of the willow-grouse 

 Visit to two islands in the delta. 



THE next day we left Alexievka in the morning to spend 

 a few days exploring the tundra in the neighbourhood of 

 Stanavialachta, the old loading-place of the Petchora Timber- 

 trading Company, about forty versts down the river, where, 

 we learnt, there were several wooden houses that we could 

 occupy. We sailed about twenty versts down to the mouth 

 of a small tributary called the Yooshina. The tundra here 



