430 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
TETRAONID 
Lagopus albus (J. F. GMELIN). Willow Grouse. 
Koropatka (R.). Hondiii (S.). 
My first notice of these birds, taken from my Journal for June 16, 
the day we landed by the Kriva, runs—‘A grouse was very abundant. 
The males were most conspicuous objects, and at one point near 
Bewick Lakes we had twenty of them in view from the same position. 
The hens as a rule sat [#.e. squatted] very close, almost until trodden 
upon. The males either flew wildly and straight away, or else from 
point to point within a distance of thirty or forty yards round us. Each 
time, before settling, they rose with fixed wings a few feet up to a point, 
like a toying wood-pigeon, and then shivered their wings at the point, 
and, still shivering, settled.’ 
On June 17 I found a nest containing twelve eggs near Sauchika 
entry. On August 6 I obtained a cock bird who was changing plumage, 
some red feathers appearing on the back and claws just ready to be 
shed. On July 30 saw eight cocks together, and from then onwards 
they continued packing. 
I did not notice any young till August 3. I came across, on that 
day, two broods of cheepers who could fly thirty yards or more, and on 
subsequent days found many. ‘The chicks of a brood were then of very 
unequal size. These broods were always amongst the willow, but 
earlier in the summer we had chiefly found the bird on grassy patches 
among peat. On August 14 found a brood in which the young were 
nearly as big as the old. 
I was surprised to find that these birds do not cross to the mainland 
in the autumn. The Samoyeds assured me that on Kolguev they 
formed an important winter food of the foxes. 
CHARADRIIDA 
Eudromias morinellus (LINN.). Dotterel. 
Zuek glupoz (R.). 
I saw a single bird on June 22 near the Gusina, and no others 
but those referred to in the following note. July 4, ‘Soon after 
