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Mr. If. F. Witherby on Birds 
on June 3rd, 1877, and another shot by Lawrow on Aug. 
26th, 1880, near Kandalax.] 
CuCULUS CANORUS. 
The Cuckoo was common from Kandalax to Pulozero. 
SuRNIA ULULA. 
The only Owl we saw during the whole of our journey was 
a single bird which probably belonged to this species. Pleske 
found it common at Raz-Navolok, on the Imandra, and north 
of that point. 
[Pleske records two specimens of Asio accipitrinus from 
near Kandalax (Lawrow); also Nyctala tengmalmi and Bubo 
ignavus ) from Kandalax (Mela).] 
Archibuteo lagopus. 
The Rough-legged Buzzard was met with here and there 
throughout our route. 
Haliaetus albicilla. 
We saw several White-tailed Eagles at Kandalax and one 
at Ekaterina, and climbed up to an immense, but empty, 
nest said to belong to this species, at the top of a pine-tree 
near Kandalax. 
Falco ^salon. 
A couple of Merlins, flying about an open heathy patch 
of country near Raz-Navolok, Imandra, were the only Hawks 
we identified. The scarcity of all Falconidse was remarkable. 
We did not see a sign of the Osprey. Writing in 1886 
Pleske considered it a common breeding-bird in Russian 
Lapland, and himself observed it at Kandalax and on the 
Imandra. 
[Pleske records the following from the district:— Astur 
palumbarius from the Imandra (Sandeberg), Kola Bay 
(Pleske), and Kandalax (Mela); Accipiter nisus from Kandalax 
(Sandeberg); and Falco gyrfalco from Kola.] 
I. I 
Phalacrocorax carbo. 
Fairly common on the coast, both at Kandalax and at 
Ekaterina. Some nests in a cliff near Ekaterina contained 
young on August 4th. 
