A LATE SEASON 265 



a few sparrows, jackdaws, and hooded crows in the villages. 

 The bullfinches and the tits disappeared with the trees, 

 and the summer birds had not yet arrived, though Mr. 

 Wardroper at Tiumen told us that starlings, rooks, geese, 

 and ducks were all overdue. It was, perhaps, fortunate 

 for us that the season was an unusually late one, otherwise 

 the roads might have been in many places impassable. 



BRONZE ORNAMENT FROM ANCIENT GRAVE NEAR KRASNOYARSK 



