48 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
ping, so that it was not easy to catch, but by patience 
I effected it. Also I followed the movements of a 
minute red active bug, which I believe to have been the 
same as that we call the money-spinner here at home. 
A pair of turnstones had made many sham nests, and 
one was ready for eggs. A Lapland bunting’s nest, 
though empty, was also quite finished. . 
A grouse was sitting on twelve eggs, of which I took 
SIX. 
All the while that I was prowling round this part, a 
pair of glaucous gulls sat and watched me, and once 
Samoved's Slabkinngs Stagh. 
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the male bird came and mobbed me slightly. So I 
thought they had a nest; but search as carefully as ever 
I could I failed to come upon it. 
I chanced on a pool where there was one red-throated 
diver and a pair of wigeon. A fine yellow-ringed 
humble-bee came booming round me, but I could not 
take him, for I had no net. 
I had been probing carefully along a line of drift as 
one who looks for gold, till my back ached with stooping. 
Straightening myself up I suddenly saw just in front of 
me a veritable flower-garden—a bank green with grasses 
