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mon of its kind ; and at the bifurcation of the river (20th 
July) Count Zeil shot a male Terekia cinerea. Anthas cer- 
vinus, in habits partaking both of A. pratensis and A. ar- 
boreus, was plentiful, as was also Lusciola suecica. Geese 
(.Anser cinereus) were not rare, nor were Swans (probably 
Cygnus musicus) ; but we succeeded in getting only young in 
down, as well as young of Harelda glacialis, (Edemia nigra, 
and CE. fusca. Colymbus septentrionalis was very common, 
but, as usual, very shy. We went up the river about 130 
versts, where we found an Ostiak, with his family, who had 
lived here for about four years, engaged in fishery, as a small 
species of Coregonus (probably allied to C. albida), called “ her¬ 
ring,” is very plentiful. We had the good luck to engage this 
Ostiak as a pilot for the Podarata river, said to be about five 
days' 5 journey on foot. We went further up the Schtschu- 
tschja river about thirty or forty versts, when navigation, 
except for small canoes, became impossible. On the 29th of 
July we had to leave the lotka, and went, a party of eleven 
men, furnished with provisions for nine days, to the Podarata 
river, where we expected to find reindeer; so we were told. 
In the upper part of the river we observed Tringa minuta, 
which lives in the thick willow-brush and has a peculiar cry, 
Saocicola oenanthe, Motacilla alba, Lusciola suecica, Chara- 
drius hiaticula, and, for the first time, C. auratus. Once we 
found the nest of Tringa minuta with four eggs, which hatched 
in a box with cotton, into which I had put them. Larus ma- 
rinus and Sterna hirundo were common; of the latter we got 
young in down. Phylloscopus trochilus and P. tristis were 
observed as far as the wood-region extended, i. e. along the 
whole of the river. Plectrophanes lapponica and P. nivalis 
we found likewise on the upper course of the river. Of rapa¬ 
cious birds we observed the Osprey, Falco subbuteo, F. cesalon, 
F. peregrinus, and Buteo lag opus, all of them being rare. We 
left our lotka on the 31st of July, and sent it with two men 
back to a place called Tschornejar (high black bank), as the 
water was rapidly falling, and it would have been impos¬ 
sible to take the lotka back later in the season. We proceded 
on foot, carrying our ammunition and provisions, and reached 
