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brown; and we again met with Golden Plovers at Vassilkova, 
Yooshina, Stanavoialachta, and Dvoinik. They frequented 
totally different ground from the Grey Plovers, affecting the 
round exposed knolls in preference to the flat bogs, and being 
almost always found where the tundra had more of the rolling 
character of prairie, intersected by willow-patches and minia- 
ture valleys, narrow deep streams of pure sparkling water, and 
clear tarns surrounded with brushwood. It is worthy of note 
that we scarcely ever found the Golden and Grey Plovers 
frequenting the same kind of ground. Ifa patch of Grey-Plover 
ground lay surrounded by knolls of dryer tundra, that patch 
might hold its pair of Grey Plovers, which, when disturbed, 
would occasionally alight on the higher ground ; but it was 
rarely that we saw a Golden Plover settle on the hummocky 
ground at the base of the knolls, though in other countries 
(as, for instance, Scotland) the latter is often their favourite 
ground for breeding on. Several pairs of Golden Plovers 
were watched to their nests or shot at them. They exhibited, 
if any thing, rather more shyness than the Grey Plovers did, 
though in general habits and mode of approaching the nest 
there was scarcely any perceptible difference. 
SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Linn.). 
We arrived at Alexievka on the 19th June, after a ten 
days’ voyage down the river from Ust Zylma. We had left 
far behind us the thick forests of small spruce which crown 
the heights behind Ust Zylma, and the older forests of pine 
and spruce and larch at Habariki. We had glided past the 
dense thickets of tail birch, leaving the last of these behind 
at Viski, and had entered upon the true delta, the flat willow- 
covered islands of which had only a short time before been 
three or four feet under the overflow of the great river. As 
we approached Alexievka, we had seen afar off, with longing 
eyes, the low outline of the skirts of the Great Zémelskaya 
tundra upon the eastern bank of the river ; and we knew that 
it stretched away eastward to the Ural Mountains, and north- 
eastwards to the gates of the Kara Sea. We had landed on 
the willow-covered islands here and there during our voyage 

