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gave me a long chase, flying rapidly, but never rising 

 higher than three or four feet above, the ground. At 

 last I got a long shot at it. It was alive when I secured 

 it, and I remarked its large and brilliant pale blood- 

 red eye. It was the blue-rumped warbler (Tarsiger 

 cyanurus\ and made the third new species added to my 

 list during the fourth week of our residence within the 

 Arctic Circle. My booty was also increased by some 

 forty skins. 



BRONZE BIT FROM ANCIENT GRAVE NEAR KRASNOYARSK 



