132 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
‘The exasperating feature in this week was that it was t#posstble to do much 
collecting. I made notes, picked what flowers and took what insects I could; and 
when we halted searched the banks for Saurian and Mammoth remains, though I 
found none. But any proper work was impossible. We could not carry an ounce 
more, not even eggs; though I did manage to get the grey plovers’ and the little stints’ 
safely through. I was struck by the dearth of mammals, the dearth of raptorial 
birds, the absence of swans, the limited list of passerine birds. Of these two last 
we have only added the white wagtail to those we saw before. 
