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good any damage that may occur to it in their district. Accidents 

 from falling trees have been guarded against by cutting down all 

 those for some distance on either side of the line, which thus runs 

 down a broad avenue. The new station stands at the junction of the 

 summer and winter routes which divide here towards the south for 

 some distance, the former going near the Kola river — too rough here 

 for navigation — to the bottom end of Lake Kolozero (ozero = lake), 

 and the latter over a line of marshes and lakes to the top end of the 

 same lake. The old summer station was at Masala (Maselsky: Rae), 

 a small promontory on the eastern side of Lake Kolozero (Guolle 

 Yaur, or Fish Lake : Rae) and ten versts from its lower end. Its 

 site is still marked by a wooden hut. The winter station is called 

 by Rae, Maselsid, and is situated on high ground ten versts from 

 Pulozero. This is also to be removed to Pulozero shortly, and most 

 of the Lapp families who now inhabit Maselsid in the winter will 

 probably follow to the new official station. 



Plate 53 shows the telegraphist's house, which became our head- 

 quarters during the next month. To the left is the rest-house pro- 

 vided for the men of the transport station ; and the building to the 

 right behind the woodstack is a bath-house. 



June ^7^d. — After unpacking and settling down we went to a large 

 marsh and lake, four versts south from Pulozero on the telegraph line. 

 Birds were not so plentiful as we had hoped to find them, still there 

 were a fair number of Ruffs, Wood-Sandpipers, and Whimbrel. I 

 flushed one of the last off a nest with four eggs placed quite in a 

 hollow beside a pool of water (see Plate 54). We also saw several 

 Bean-Geese but did not think they were nesting here. After much 

 walking over heavy ground we turned for home through the woods, 

 finding a Fieldfare's nest with six eggs and a Lapp Tit's with five, and 

 disturbing a male Spotted Redshank and two pairs of Greenshanks in 

 some small marshes on the hillside. 



Of course a pair of White Wagtails were about the house — I do 

 not remember a group of Lapp huts Avithout them — and eventually 



