SUPPLEMENT—BIRDS OF NORFOLK & LORD HOWE ISLANDS, ETC. 
The following is taken from tlie above-mentioned volume. 
“ On the way from Verchovansk to the Adycha River, along the Kolymosk 
road down the River Borulach, left tributary of the Adycha, almost to its 
source, this Whimbrel was met during the month of July, rather after, especially 
between the Rivers Yana and Adycha. On the way further on, in the direction 
to the Verchoyansk Range, on the River Nelgeche, another left affluent of the 
Adycha, it was seen only at one spot—‘in the region of the River Kess-Yurach. 
“ Several pairs were seen on the low ridges on the right bank of the Yana, 
3 to 4 kilometres from Verchoyansk ; others on the plains of the slopes of the 
high zone of Bolclioi-Ynnach mountain, which forms the watershed between 
the Yana and the Adycha (where Dr. A. Bunge also saw this bird in 1885); 
near the lake Kumacli on the Kolymosk road ; the slopes of the high zone of 
Ash Khaja Mountains, 25 kilometres east of the sources of the River Borulach; 
down the River Nelgeche near the mouth of Kess-Yurach. Its favourite and 
almost constant habitat are old burns on the slope, or large, not too marshy 
valleys and plains of liigh zone, with dry trees or their burned trunks, and 
with some thin bushes between them. The birds were mostly to be seen in 
places where such burns border upon open alpine plains grown with sparse 
shrubs or with grass. 
“ At our approach the birds used to make a great noise, soaring with cries 
over our heads, sometimes alighting down on the trees or on the ground, never 
ceasing to call. If w r e camped somewhere near their nesting site, the birds, 
after having been very noisy for a considerable time, grew 7 silent for a while, 
as if taking breath, and then started again their fluttering over our heads.” 
The finding of the nestling by Mr. Tkachenko on July 6th, as w r ell as the 
mention of Dr. Bunge that on the 11th of July they already had young, gives 
ground for surmising that part of the birds move southward as soon as the 
young are hatched, possibly 7 the males being the first to depart. As regards 
the course of the migration, our information gives the possibility of stating that 
the main mass of the birds evidently 7 flies straight south, avoiding the seashores 
of Russian Far East, gathering on the meridians of Dauria; further on they 
cross Eastern Mongolia and the north-eastern provinces of China emerging on 
the shores of the Pacific only 7 near Shanghai. Thus, this course proves to be 
different from the one which is known for some of the Yakutian birds which 
fly from the central parts of Yakut-Land eastwards across the Amur Land to 
the shores of the Japanese sea. 
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