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viz. to Dvoinik, frequenting the low willow-bushes or knolls, 
and avoiding the long level stretches of bare tundra. 
TEeTRAO TETRIX, L. 
We only once met with this species, viz. between Yorsa and 
Chuvinski, some forty versts north of Habariki, where we 
found a nest containing five eggs on an island. The sur- 
rounding ground was covered with tall alder and birch; and 
long grass covered the raised bank which formed a break- 
water between the river and a lagoon, and upon which the 
nest was placed. The Greyhen was flushed off the nest, but 
not shot. 
TETRAO UROGALLUS, L. 
As with the last species, many Capercaillie hens were 
brought in for sale, at forty kopecs per brace. The peasants 
do not shoot the males, as they are not considered good food. 
Although we saw several Capercaillie cocks southward from 
Ust Zylma, we met with none there in the forests, nor at 
Habariki. 
TETRASTES BONASIA (L.). 
Many of these birds were sold to us by the peasants, cost- 
ing twenty kopecs per brace, at Ust Zylma; but we had not 
the good luck to meet with any ourselves, either at that place 
or further north. Being a pine-forest species, it probably does 
not occur further north than Bougéeffskia, which is said to 
be upon the northern limit of the pine-woods along the river- — 
banks. 
CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS, L. 
Many Golden Plovers passed during the time of migration, 
alighting occasionally in the fields on the hill-slopes behind 
the town to feed. At this season it is not difficult to call 
these migratory birds within range by an imitation of their 
note. We obtained the first specimens on the 17th May, and 
again met with the species at Habariki, where a single pair 
was haunting the newly sown fields close behind the village. 
After that a specimen was shot at Kuya by Seebohm, which 
has one of the axillary feathers slightly splashed with smoky 






