INDEX 



509 



of, 34 ; source and course of, 35 ; geo- 

 logical characteristics of banks, 40 ; 

 birds in valley of, 46 ; excursion after 

 geese on, 78 ; flocks of birds, 81-84 ; 

 flooded banks, zo/; delta, ny : birds 

 and sport on, 122, 123; TimberTrading 

 Co., 143; trade on, 160; dangers of 

 navigation, 231 



Petchorski Pizhma, 28 



Petrels, Fulmar, 233 



Phalaropes, Red-necked, 128, 131 ; be- 

 haviour when breeding, 220, 227 



Phylloscopus trisHs, 92, 194 ; P. super- 

 ciliosus, 335 



Picus crissoleuctis, P.pipra, 500 



Pigeons, 19 



Pigeon-Russ, 11, 31, 159 



Pinega river, scenery on, 23 ; fair at, 23 ; 

 birds of, 25 ; Samoyedes at, 25, 49 



Pine-grosbeak, 13; song of, 94 



Piottuch, M. , 19; sledge adventure, 28; 

 helplessness of, 31 ; shoots snowy owl, 

 78; nickname for, 79, 211 



Pipits, wildness of, 83 ; red-throated and 

 meadow, 84 ; Siberian, 127 (note) ; 

 tree-, 92, 454 ; Richards', 459 



Pizhma river, 28 



Planesticus, 424 



Plectrophanes nivalis^ 44 



Plover, Grey, j, 4 ; shyness of, 138-148 ; 

 nest and young, i4<) : behaviour of, 

 154, 155 ; flight, 172 ; call-note, 173, 

 175 ; found byMiddendorff, 235 ; Asiatic 

 golden plover, 83 ; on Golchika tundra, 

 407 



Popham, Mr., on Curlew Sandpiper, 236 



Prahms, 208 



Pratincola maura, 93 



Provisions, price of, 95, 208 ; scarcity of, 

 226, 227 ; cheapness of in Steppe vil- 

 lages, 263 



" Purchas his Pilgrimes," 5, 36 (note); 

 67 (note) 



Pustozersk, 44, 49 ; arrive at, 130 

 Pyrrhula rubicilla, 34 



Pytkoff Mountains, 187, 213, 219 



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Railway-travelling, in Germany, 8 ; 



in Russia, 8 

 Ravens, 13 ; at Archangel, 19, 24 ; on 



Petchora, 46 



Redpoll, Mealy, ig, 46, 52, 59, 70, 80 



Redstart, 77 



Redwing, 434 



Reindeer, 49, 55, 56, 293, 305 



Reindeer-bot, 50 



Rein-rests, 6r 



Roads, bad to Ust-Zylma, 22 ; on plains 

 good, 29 ; forest, 29 ; to Kureika, soft, 

 little used, 292 ; corduroy, 467 ; bad to 

 Perm, 477 ; road 5000 miles long, 478 



Rosposki, 208, 3JS 



Russia, political feeling in, 256 ; the two 

 curses of, 436 ; de-Tatarisation of, 

 480; her war with Turkey, 487; cor- 

 ruption of her officials, 488; Nihilism 

 in, 494 ; her finanpial condition, 495 



Russians, readiness to help, 31 ; peasantry 

 in Siberia, 32 ; their houses, 32 ; drink- 

 ing habits, 53 ; procrastination, 73 ; 

 cunning, 99 ; baths, 165 ; grumbling, 

 228 ; cowardice, 253 ; shameless official 

 begging, 28S ; pipe, j^/, ^-^5-/ useless 

 priests, 352 ; commercial dishonesty of 

 ofiicials, 366-368 ; conservatism, 374 ; 

 servants, 490 

 Russow, M. , on Siberian bronzes, 465 

 Ruticilla pkmnicurus, 177 



Sabanaeff, M., museum collection, 485, 

 499 (note) 



Sacharoff, M., 85 



Samovar, 10 



Samoyedes, 5 ; dialect, 16 ; physical 

 characteristics, 17 ; sledges, 17 ; names 

 of birds, 18; national songs, 18; elec- 

 tion of king, 18 ; ignorance of doctors, 

 18; knives, 20: Captains Arendt and 

 Engel upon, 48-51 ; lassoing rein-- eer, 

 S5i 56-58 ; sledges, 59 ; temperament, 

 64 ; good teeth, 64 ; marriage customs, 

 64-66 ; burial of dead, 66 ; idols of, 67 ; 

 conversion, 67; language, 97, 98; de- 

 cadence of, 99 ; skill at birds'-nesting, 

 171 ; trade in geese, 220 ; tomb of, 

 224 ; pipes, 2^4, 2g8, jyg ; snow spec- 

 tacles, 280 ; geographical distribution, 

 309 ; variable, 347 ; man, ^69; erecting 

 a choom, jgj ; King of, 400 ; boots, 

 413 ; their ethnological place, 430, 431 



Sanderling, 4, 180 



Sandpiper, Curlew, 4, 18; wood-, 114; 

 Terek, ri8 



