the Ranks of the Lena River 



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the clay, in various spots, I counted fourteen dead birds 

 suspended from or cemented to their own nests. They appear 

 to get their feet entangled in the hair and mud and cannot 

 get free. Their mates go on building, and finally the dead 

 birds get from one- to three-fourths of their bodies quite 

 covered by the mud wall of the nest. The posterior half is 

 the hidden part. Eggs were hard-set on June the 19th here. 

 Ninety versts below Verlouis, on July 27th, young were still 

 in the nests.] 



57. Clivicola riparia diluta (Sharpe). 



Colile diluta Sharpe, Monogr. Ilirund. i. p. G3 (1894: 

 near Tashkend). 



4 $ ? . Zarkarminski, 8. vi. 1903. (Nos. 12, 13, 14, 18.) 

 " Bill and feet black." 



Text-fie. 3. 



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Ne.st.s of Clivicola rtparia (Hint a. 



These examples appear to be quite adult and in good 

 plumage, not worn, as might be expected. They differ 



