xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



FROM YENESEISK TO TOMSK. 



Once more in Yeneseisk Country on the Banks of the Yenesei Moulting 

 Birds Blyth's Grass-warbler Nordenskiold's Goods A Holiday A Dinner 

 Party at the Ispravnik's From Yeneseisk to Krasnoyarsk Three days at 

 Krasnoyarsk The Club Telegraph Communication Scurvy amongst the 

 Tungusks The Neighbouring Country From Krasnoyarsk to Tomsk 

 Magnificence of the Autumn Foliage The Villages The Birds Difficulties 

 in the Way A Friendly Ispravnik Tomsk The Wreck of the Thames. 



Pp. 458-468 



CHAPTER XLV. 



FROM TOMSK TO PERM. 



From Tomsk to Tiumen An Old Acquaintance Cost of Steamboat Travelling 

 Cooking Tobolsk Contrast between Russian and Tatar Villages Threading 

 the Labyrinth of the Tura The Black Kite Cormorants Asiatic White 

 Crane Notes of Sandpipers Tiumen Russian Hotel Accommodation Bad 

 Roads Ekaterinburg Recrossing the Ural Iron-works Kongur New 

 Railways The Big Village Pp. 469-478 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



HOMEWARD BOUND. 



Perm De-Tatarisation of Russia The Siberiak Heavy Rain Autumnal Tints 

 Kazan Search for a Professor The Museum Tatars Steamboat Accident 

 The Volga Nishni Novgorod Moscow Its Museum St. Petersburg. 



Pp. 479-486 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



RUSSIAN CORRUPTION. 



St. Petersburg The Turkish War Corruption of Russian Officials Commercial 

 Morality Russian Servants Turkish Misrule Christianity of the Turks 

 Childishness of the Russian Peasants Russian Conservatism Financial 

 Condition of Russia ......... Pp. 487-496 



CHAPTER XLVIII. 



RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS. 



Ornithological Results of the Trip Siberian Forms of Birds Discoveries of 

 Pallas Comparison of European and Siberian Birds Interbreeding of 

 Allied Species Affinity of European and Japanese Species Sub-species 

 Conclusion ... Pp. 497-504 



INDEX ............ Pp. 505-512 



