FROM MEKITZA TO KUYA ON A ROSPOSKI 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



RESULTS OF THE JOURNEY. 



Results of the Trip — Summer in the Arctic Regions — Circumpolar Birds 

 — Birds Confined to the Eastern Hemisphere — Various Ranges of Birds — 

 Migration of Birds — Dates of Arrival — Probable Route — Conclusion. 



The results of our somewhat adventurous journey ex- 

 ceeded our most sanguine hopes. 



Of the half-dozen British birds, the discovery of 

 whose breedingr-CTrounds had baffled the efforts of our 

 ornithologists for so long, we succeeded in bringing 

 home identified eggs of three — the grey plover,* the 

 Little stint, and Bewick's swan. Of the remaining three, 

 two — the sanderlingr and the knot — were found breedine 



* Mr. Seebohm apparently overlooked the fact that Middendorff found the nest 

 ■of the grey plover on theJTaimyr peninsula in 1S43, and figured the egg in his 

 Sihirische Reise, Bd.'H., Th. 2, plate 19, Fig. i. Tringa minuta was also found 

 nesting, though its eggs were not figured, by the same traveller. — Ed. 



