6o BIRDS OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND 



after one, and made a good quick passage of four and a half hours 

 to the island of Heno; for although there was a considerable swell 

 remaining from yesterday, the wind was astern. I shot two Pomator- 

 hine Skuas Stercorarius pomatorhinus on the way; the first a hand- 

 some male in adult plumage, with twisted tail; the second was an 

 immature female, with much more colour on the breast and a short 

 tail. Several others were about the ship most of the time, and also 

 Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis, Kittiwakes, Puffins, &c. 



We landed in the small bay on the south side of Heno — the same 

 place as in 1899 — with some difficulty, on account of the swell, 

 and were at once confronted by a new wooden house, erected since 

 our last visit. However to our relief, it was empty, and the birds 

 had become accustomed to its presence. Probably it has been built 

 by the monks of Saint Triphon's for the use of their people while 

 gathering the crop of multebser (cloudberry, Ruhus chamcemorus) ; and 

 it certainly proved a useful shelter during some heavy showers of rain 

 on our later visits. We found the island covered with two or three 

 inches of snow ; but it had recently fallen, and there were no heavy 

 drifts as on May 31, 1899, nor did the ground appear to be so 

 hard frozen. Some forty or fifty Purple Sandpipers were feeding on 

 the beach where we landed. The pool by the old camp was much 

 reduced in size, and what little water it contained was covered with 

 ice ; the large lake was open, however, and on it were a number of 

 Common Eider, a few Velvet Scoter and Common Scoter (Edemia 

 nigra, a pair of Long- tailed Duck, and many other birds we could not 

 identify, for the light was bad, and they were so wild that they had 

 evidently been considerably disturbed. Some of the Puffins had 

 arrived and had visited their burrows, as we saw many marks on the 

 snow where they had entered them. Still not more than a tenth of 

 the full summer population had put in an appearance yet. A Raven 

 left for the mainland as soon as he saw us, probably one of the pair 

 nesting in Andarnaia fjord in 1899, which make this island their 

 chief hunting-ground. We saw a few Snow-Buntings and Lapland 



