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were leading a small flock of sheep over. The only birds seen on the 

 hills were a female Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, and a pair of Dotterel 

 Eudromias morinellus. A Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagoyus passed 

 over us in the evening; and some Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus 

 fuscus came into the bay, the first seen this year. 



June 4th. — It has snowed every day since we left the Porsanger, 

 but to-day eclipsed them all ; consequently our rambles on shore were 

 not prolonged. New birds seen were Redwing Turdus iliacus, Field- 

 fares, and a Black-throated Diver Colymhus ardicus. We noticed that 

 some of the birch buds were swelling in spite of the trees being 

 surrounded by two feet of snow. 



J2ine sth. — Having nothing else to do, we steamed across to Little 

 Heno. This island consists of two parts ; one some forty feet high, 

 the other a low stretch of land little above the present sea-level, and 

 joined to the first by a large bar of shingle. The whole of the lower 

 portion appears to be an old beach, the upper parts of which have 

 been covered with herbage and a few patches of dwarf sallow. There 

 were large numbers of small birds on the island, of the same species as 

 seen on Great Heno, the only fresh one being a Shore-Lark. Some of 

 the Puffins had decided to lay in spite of the weather, for we found five 

 eggs ; the fact that four of these were under stones, and the fifth only 

 six inches inside the hole, was a sure indication of the general condi- 

 tion of their burrows. The poor little beggars who had been trying 

 to scratch out fresh holes must have hurt their feet considerably, for 

 the ground was so frozen it was impossible to dig out a likely hole 

 with a spade. An Oyster-catcher had three eggs on the beach, and a 

 few of the Great Black-backed and Herring-Gulls were laying. 



In the evening we returned to the mainland, and anchored in 

 Andarnaia fjord (Andarnaya Gulf in Arctic Pilot), an inlet eastward 

 of and close to Pechenga Gulf. Andarnaia fjord is 2 J miles long 

 and half a mile wide, with hills rising abruptly from the water on 

 both sides, so that a landing can only be effected at a few points. 

 The Admiralty chart shows three salt-water lakes at the head of the 



