290 Messrs. H. Seebohm and J. A. Harvie Brown on 
Dvoinik they were plentiful among the sand-hills and on the 
gravelly beach, and we occasionally met with them on the 
: tundra some versts from the shore. 
/AGIALITIS FLUVIATILIS (Bechst.). 
On the 8th June we obtained a single specimen of the 
Little Ringed Plover at Ust Zylma. It was identified and 
shot as it rose from, and again alighted upon, a marshy, 
hummocky strip of tundra-land near the town. Only one 
or two other specimens were seen during our trip, one of 
which was upon the tundra, at the edge of a small lake. It 
is decidedly scarce, or else a late migrant not going far 
to the northward in any numbers. 
H#MATOPUS OSTRALEGUS (L.). 
Oystercatchers were first seen by us at Ust Zylma on the 
26th May, where we also obtained eggs on the 8th June; and 
we found them afterwards in small numbers up to about 
20 miles within the arctic circle. We did not find them 
on the islands of the delta, or on the shores of the mainland 
north of that point. 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (L.). 
We obtained the Red-necked Phalarope at its breedine 
haunts on the islands as we descended the river for the first: 
time on the 17th June; and the following day we got the 
eggs on an island opposite Kuya. Afterwards we found them 
extremely abundant upon all the islands, and in suitable loca- 
lities upon the tundra, especially at Dvoinik. During the 
last week in July at Dvoinik we found the Red-necked Pha- 
larope in small flocks, consisting of birds in two distinct 
stages of plumage. The new dress differed from the usual 
summer plumage in the following particulars :—The bill was 
very soft and flexible, instead of being comparatively stiff and 
hard. The back of the legs and the under surface of the feet 
were pale yellow; the front of the legs and the upper sur- 
face of the feet were a grey flesh-colour, whilst in the breed- 
ing-plumage the legs and feet were a uniform dark lead- 
colour, with a faint tinge of yellow on the margin of the 
lobes. The primaries and the whole of the upper plumage 



