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lyih with four eggs, had still the same number and was sitting. 

 Flowers and butterflies were now becoming more common ; many 

 white pinguicula had opened their delicate little blooms and with the 

 pink andromeda relieved the dreariness of the peat, while the trollius 

 showed colour near the houses. Still this certainly cannot be called a 

 land of flowers ; they seemed to be fewer both in numbers and species 

 than in any other part of Lapland. 



On the 2 1 st we found a nest with three eggs of the Spotted Fly- 

 catcher Muscicapa grisola the first indication of its presence here. 

 Pleske records this species from Lake Imandra and Kandalax. Mr. 

 Witherby saw one pair of the Pied Flycatcher on the south shore of 

 Lake Imandra, and Musters thought he heard its note at Pulozero, but 

 we did not see the bird. 



J^one 22nd, — As all our efforts to find a nest of the Bar-tailed God- 

 wit at Pulozero had failed, we decided to go to Raz-Navolok to-day and 

 see if the species was breeding there. The distance from the head of 

 Lake Pulozero to Lake Kolozero is said to be four versts, but it took 

 us quite an hour, walking at a rate of nearly four miles an hour. I 

 found the latter lake was 6o feet above the former by aneroid. 

 Leaving Pulozero at 1.40 p.m., we started on Kolozero at 2.50 and 

 traversed the fifteen versts to the head of the lake in two and a half 

 hours, sailing part of the way. Then came another tramp over the 

 short verst which divides Kolozero from Lake Pereyaver and forms the 

 watershed between the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea. We were 

 glad to find that Mr. Witherby's flies had not yet appeared on the 

 scene, nor did we meet with them on our return. Pereyaver is the 

 Lapp, and Permosozero the Russian name of the lake, while Rae gives 

 it as Pieresozero. We started on this lake at 6 p.m., and assisted by 

 a good breeze most of the way, completed the twelve versts at 8.10 p.m., 

 and then stopped for a meal. A good dry path across the next portage 

 made its four versts appear short ones. Just before reaching Lake 

 Imandra, Juno put up something a few yards from the path, and 

 rushed off after it ; then returned to assist in the search and " set " a 



