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the Birds of the Lower Petchora. 
Marsh-Tit sparingly at Ust Zylma and Habariki as long as 
snow continued on the ground, but did not see it afterwards. 
Parus cinctus, Bodd. 
We found one pair of the Lap Titmouse at Ust Zylma, and 
met with it more abundantly at Habariki. Further north it 
again became rarer, and the last specimens we procured were 
frequenting a willow-swamp a few miles to the north of the 
arctic circle. On comparing our specimens with the bird 
figured in DresseFs f Birds of Europe/ and with his type of 
P. grisescens , we remark that our birds approach the latter 
species in being less russet on the flanks, and showing more 
conspicuously the white edgings to the wing- and tail-feathers 
than the western form. 
4-Ampelis garrulus, L. 
We shot a pair of Waxwings at Habariki on 4th June; and 
Seebohm saw a party of six flying north on the 12th, shortly 
before we reached the Yorsa river. In the frozen-market at 
St. Petersburg we bought a dozen of these beautiful birds for 
eighty kopecs; but they all turned out to be males. The pair 
we shot at Habariki were not in very good plumage, having 
very few and small wax appendages on the secondaries. The 
eggs in the female were very large, and the testes of the male 
very fully developed. As the yellow on the primaries is I- 
shaped and not Y-shaped, we presume the male to be a young 
bird. In this pair the male differs from the female in the 
following particulars :—It is a larger bird, with longer wings 
and tail, and slightly larger crest. The black on the throat 
is much deeper in colour, and much more sharply defined. 
The bar of yellow on the tail is much broader. The wax ap¬ 
pendages are larger, and there are more of them. The yel¬ 
low on the primaries is more brilliant, and the white on the 
secondaries and on the wing-coverts is larger. Finally, the 
chestnut on the under tail-coverts is decidedly darker in shade. 
The difference in the colour of the under tail-coverts of the 
two sexes is about the same as that between a ripe horse- 
chestnut freshly taken from the husk, and one which has been 
exposed for a day or two to the air. This will probably be 
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