TO RUSSIA AND BACK. 3 
and that of London. After setting our watches right, we 
steamed off again and passed to the north of the island of 
Bornholm, and near to the unpronounceable place called 
Utkhipporna. No view to be obtained of the Prussian 
coast at any time. 
The following morning, a little before 7 a.m. when the 
“Ranger” had passed the island of CEland—visited for 
egging purposes by Messrs. Wolley and Huddleston in 
1866—and was off Gottland, on the Swedish side of the 
Baltic—weather thick and inclined to rain—several Inses- 
sorial birds alighted on the rigging. With them was a Hawk, 
which, according to the report of the man at the helm, was 
so exhausted that it fell into the sea, When I came on 
deck, the only bird which remained was a Phyllopneuste—I 
believe P. trochilus (L.). It was joined by another, ap- 
parently of the same species, somewhat later in the day. 
At 2.45 a female Pied Flycatcher (Muscicapa atricapilla L.) 
settled on the ship, which I got a good view of by creeping 
along under the bulwarks. There was no wind at that time. 
It had no sooner left us than one of the boys caught a bird 
which had been about, I believe, all the morning, and 
which proved to be a Red-backed Shrike. Doubtless these 
feathered pilgrims were but the vanguard of the great 
autumnal tide of migration. They must have come from 
the immense firwoods which skirt the Swedish shore, and 
extend into the interior. The author of a “ Note Book ofa 
_Naturalist” mentions, (p. 64) that when he was sailing 
near the same place, a Long-tailed Titmouse came on 
board, which is far more remarkable than any of the birds 
I saw. 
As evening drew on, the sea, which before was calm 
as glass, began to be gently rippled by a passing wind. 
Quickly the sails felt the breeze. Quickly our good ship 
ploughed her way onwards, and as she went she left 
behind her a broad wake of foam, on which there fell the 
