no BIRDS OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND 



found on the surface, and was placed in a small patch of dwarf sallow 

 ten inches high, the same patch I believe from which I took a Turn- 

 stone's nest in 1899. While I was busy photographing, Kjeldsen 

 discovered a Turnstone's nest (four eggs), a Phalarope's (four), and 

 three young Turnstone, all in a small area ; so that his luck was in the 

 ascendant to-day. The first nest, and another Turnstone's towards the 

 other end of the spit (all eight eggs nearly hatching), were placed on 

 the open ground with no protection beyond a few blades of grass ; 

 whereas all the nests of this species found here in 1899 were under 

 stones or in dwarf sallow. The three young Turnstones were so active 

 that Kjeldsen tied them up in a red and white handkerchief, and 

 reported that the old bird shortly came and settled on the handker- 

 chief to brood them, when he was only a few yards off. If the bird 

 could face that handkerchief I felt certain he would face the camera, 

 so I fixed it up, and two exposures were obtained in twenty minutes, 

 the better of which is given in Plate 46b. Feeling doubtful however 

 as to their correctness, I waited more than an hour in vain to take 

 a third photo ; but the birds seemed to get more shy as time went on, 

 and many were the consultations they held and the manoeuvres they 

 tried. It was always however the bird I believed to be the male 

 which came near, the female never advanced to within fifteen yards of 

 the young. 



We afterwards went up to the higher part of Little Heno but saw 

 nothing of interest, nor did we meet with any Little Stints here this 

 year, as I had hoped to do after our experience in 1899. I suspect 

 the nesting of this species to the west of the White Sea depends 

 largely on the nature of the season in those more eastern parts of 

 Russia which it usually frequents. 



And here ended our expedition as far as ornithology was con- 

 cerned, an expedition giving no striking results and no new facts 

 beyond the one that the birds on the east side of the White Sea, at 

 the spot we visited, correspond very closely with those on its western 

 side. Still I feel sure from information received in Norway that the 



