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Miss Maud D. Haviland, who was the Guest of the Club 

 at the invitation of the Committee^ gave a most interesting 

 account of her visit last year to Northern Siberia. Many- 

 beautiful photographs were thrown on the screen ^ illustrative 

 of her journey and of the bird-life which she encountered, 

 and these were greatly appreciated by the large audience. 

 The most interesting discovery made was that of the nest, 

 eggs, and young of the Curlew-Sandpiper {Tringa ferrugined), 

 photographs of which were exhibited. 



Miss Haviland is to be congratulated on the excellence 

 of all the photographs shown and on the clear manner in 

 which she delivered her lecture. 



She gave the following brief account* of her experiences: — 



" I left Yeneseisk, on the Yenesei River, on June lOtli, 

 1914, as one of the party of Miss Czaplicka of Oxford. We 

 proceeded down the river, arriving at Turukhausk in the 

 Arctic Circle on June 16th. Owing to the short stops of 

 the steamer, it was not possible to do any bird-photography 

 on the way down the river, and even collecting-excursions 

 ashore were brief and much interrupted. 



"On June 17th we passed the mouth of the Kureika 

 River, where Seebohm spent six weeks in the steamer of 

 Captain Wiggins, and on reaching Dudinka, at the begin- 

 ning of the great estuary, the forest was left behind and the 

 marshy tundra was reached. 



" On June 28th we reached Golchika, the most northerly 

 village of the Yenesei, and stayed ashore there for two 

 months. The country partly consisted of river-marsh and 

 partly of tundra, photographs of which are shown. The 

 most interesting nest found was that of the Curlew-Sand- 

 piper {Tringa ferruginea) '[, that being the first time that it 

 was found so far south. 



* Miss Haviland has recently published a hook entitled '' A Summer 

 on the Yenesei," describing in detail her experiences which are touched 

 upon here, 



t The Editor is responsible for the nomenclature employed in this 

 paper ; the ' B. 0. U. List of British Birds ' (2nd edit. 1915) has been 

 followed where possible. 



