THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 

 No. 112. APRIL 1877. 



XXIII. — On the Distribution of Birds in North Russia. — 

 I. On the Distribution of Birds on the Loiver Petchora^ in 

 North-east Russia. By J. A. Harvie Brown, F.Z.S. 



" Till every well-marked district, every archipelago, and every impor- 

 tant island has all its known species of the more important groups of 

 animals catalogued on an uniform plan and with an uniform nomencla- 

 ture, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution 

 of Animals will not be possible." 



The following paper is intended as a companion paper to the 

 fuller account published in 'The Ibis' for 1876*, and is 

 intended to show in tabular form the distribution of the species 

 met with. 



In the Table further on I have indicated the points at 

 which and the line along which we observed the different 

 species, by perpendicular strokes in the columns devoted to the 

 thirteen localities mentioned. As the preparation of this 

 paper has necessitated a thorough reexamination of my jour- 

 nals, these strokes, marking the records of actual occurrence 

 of the species at these points, may be held as trustworthy, no 

 stroke having been drawn in the spaces unless there is a cor- 

 responding record in my journal. When these strokes are 

 drawn towards the sides of the columns and not in the centres, 

 they will be understood to indicate that the species were 

 observed between the latitudes given, or may be regarded 

 as generally distributed over the distance represented. I 

 have also indicated the probable presence of these species at 

 other localities by dotted lines (...). Where I have left a 



* " Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora. By Henry Seebohm, 

 F.Z.S., and J. A. Harvie Brown." Ibis, 1876, January, April, July, 

 and October. 



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