410 Staff-Surg. K. H. Jones on Birds observed 
baikalia, a very beautiful country, well wooded and with 
rapid clear rivers such as are seen in Wales and Scotland, 
but on a larger scale. In the forenoon I saw the Eastern 
House-Martin ( Chelidon lagopoda ) at a station, but I 
never noticed this species again. 
To-day Daurian Jackdaws were in great abundance and in 
the afternoon I noticed with them an occasional example of 
Corvus neglectus , the eastern form of the Common Jackdaw, 
according to Dresser. Carrion-Crows were rather scarce. 
I twice saw Black-eared Kites ( Milvus melanotis ). Buzzards 
were fairly plentiful and I saw one or two Moor-hens on the 
pools by the side of the line. At dusk I saw an example of 
Bubo maximus on the top of a dead tree. 
June 5 th. —In the morning the train had arrived at the 
southern end of Lake Baikal, the mountains on the eastern 
side of which were in full view. 
There was much drift-ice, in large blocks, on the shores of 
the lake, and numerous ice-floes on its surface, at some 
distance from the land. There were many Herring-Gulls by 
the shores of the lake or floating on its surface, but whether 
they were Larus vega or L. cachinnans it was impossible to 
make out, especially as the majority were in immature 
plumage. Buzzards were fairly plentiful, and of Black-eared 
Kites I observed one or two. Here I saw the only Haven 
(Corvus corax) which I noticed throughout the journey and 
a few Carrion-Crows [C. cor one). What I took to be the 
Baikal White Wagtail ( Motacilla baicalensis) was abundant 
near the lake-side. Common Swallows ( Hirundo gutturalis) 
were fairly numerous near the stations, but the other 
species ( H . striolata) had disappeared. To-day I saw the last 
of the Daurian Jackdaws and indeed of the Eastern Jackdaw 
(Corvus neglectus) also for a time. We got to Irkutsk, the 
capital of Siberia, about 2 p.m. on this day, and here I noticed 
Passer montanus and saw what I believed to be P. domesticus. 
June 6th. —After leaving Irkutsk and until reaching the 
Ural Mountains, a distance of some thousands of miles, the 
country is either quite flat or very gently undulating, chiefly 
the former. June 6th was rather uninteresting; in the fore- 
