. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . RA 277 Seebohm shouldered his snow-skates and I tied mineto my bag, and we started across the river to try thenorth bank of the Zylma. Snow-skates are about asinconvenient indispensables as one can find. The fasten-ing of them on, and the continual loosening of the strapsin the first place; and the awkward positions andsituations one gets into afterwards in thick willowswamps, sloping banks with stumps or bow-shapedbranches protruding from the snow, and even sometimesin the open ground unless one is e
. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . RA 277 Seebohm shouldered his snow-skates and I tied mineto my bag, and we started across the river to try thenorth bank of the Zylma. Snow-skates are about asinconvenient indispensables as one can find. The fasten-ing of them on, and the continual loosening of the strapsin the first place; and the awkward positions andsituations one gets into afterwards in thick willowswamps, sloping banks with stumps or bow-shapedbranches protruding from the snow, and even sometimesin the open ground unless one is expert in their use,make them, though necessary, most troublesome. Butanything is better than plunging at every step up to oneswaist, and getting along at the rate of half a mile an hour. All we saw in the mixed alder and birch and willowforest to the north of the Zylma was a solitary Marsh Tit,which Seebohm shot, and afterwards on the island I hada long shot at a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. We again examined the snares more minutely, andfound them resemble one another in general appearance. and mode of working. Fig. 1 represents the wholespringe; la is the string forming the noose, one end ofVOL. II. 20 278 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST which is tied to the hollow tube of wood, 16 forming therunner, the other end of the string passing through thetube, which is lightly balanced on the forked twig string is then tied to the lower end of the smallpiece of wood, Id, passes up along its side and through ahole near the other end, and thence to the small end ofthe balanced beam. The top of the piece of wood Id issmoothly rounded off, and the loop le (which is firmlytied to the stick 1/, which again is firmly planted in theground), is passed over the rounded end of Id, and, restingpartly on the string 1« and partly on the wood, pulls directlyagainst the upward pull given by the balanced beam. When Puss getsinto the noose, thepiece of wood Id isdisplaced and the loopslips off, and theb
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