xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



FROM YENESEISK TO TOMSK. 

 Once more in Yeneseisk —Country on the Banks of the Yenesei— Moulting 

 Birds— Blyth's Grass-warbler— Nordenskiold's Goods— A Holiday— A Dinner 

 Party at the Ispravnik's— From Yeneseisk to Krasnoyarsk— Three days at 

 Krasnoyarsk— The Club— Telegraph Communication— Scurvy amongst the 

 Tungusks— The Neighbouring Country— From Krasnoyarsk to Tomsk- 

 Magnificence of the Autumn Foliage— The Villages— The Birds— Difficulties 

 in the Way— A Friendly Ispravnik— Tomsk— The Wreck of the Thames. 



Pp. 458-468 



CHAPTER XLV. 



FROM TOMSK TO PERM. 



From Tomsk to Tinmen- An Old Acquaintance— Cost of Steamboat Travelling— 

 Cooking— Tobolsk— Contrast between Russian and Tatar Villages — Threading 

 the Labyrinth of the Tura— The Black Kite— Cormorants— Asiatic White 

 Crane — Notes of Sandpipers — Tinmen — Russian Hotel Accommodation — Bad 

 Roads — Ekaterinburg ^Recrossing the Ural — Iron- works — Kongur — New 

 Railways — The Big Village . . . Pp. 469-478 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



HOMEV^TARD BOUND. 



Perm — De-Tatarisation of Russia — The Siberiak — Heavy Rain— Autumnal Tints 

 — Kazan — Search for a Professor — The Museum — Tatars — Steamboat Accident 

 — The Volga — Nishni Novgorod — Moscow — Its Museum — St. Petersburg. 



Pp. 479-485 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



RUSSIAN CORRUPTION. 



St. Petersburg — The Turkish War — Corruption of Russian Officials— Commercial 

 Morality — Russian Servants — Turkish Misrule — Christianity of the Turks — 

 Childishness of the Russian Peasants — Russian Conservatism — Financial 

 Condition of Russia . Pp. 487-496 



CHAPTER XLVni. 



RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS. 



Ornithological Results of the Trip — Siberian Forms of Birds — Discoveries of 

 Pallas — Comparison of European and Siberian Birds — Interbreeding of 



Allied Species — Affinity of European and Japanese Species — Sub-species 



Conclusion . . . . . . Pp. 497-504 



Index . . . Pp. 505-512 



