. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . Loudon - Unwiii . Stan/brdsGcoQ^EstaiP London. ABCHANGEL 1872. o m OH • 05 CO J H 03 M ARCHANGEL 1872 INTEODUCTION In 1872 my friend Mr. Edward E. Alston and myself,wishing to make an ornithological expedition with hopesof making discoveries of some importance, and of doingour part towards the elucidation of some of the problemswhich were at that time pressing for solution, turned ourattention to the possibilities afforded by the extremenorth-eastern portion of Finland, and by the Archangelre
. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . Loudon - Unwiii . Stan/brdsGcoQ^EstaiP London. ABCHANGEL 1872. o m OH • 05 CO J H 03 M ARCHANGEL 1872 INTEODUCTION In 1872 my friend Mr. Edward E. Alston and myself,wishing to make an ornithological expedition with hopesof making discoveries of some importance, and of doingour part towards the elucidation of some of the problemswhich were at that time pressing for solution, turned ourattention to the possibilities afforded by the extremenorth-eastern portion of Finland, and by the Archangelregion, eventually deciding upon the latter. The inducements which weighed with us were that theArchangel region afforded us a better chance of meetingwith new and really rare species, and that, in addition toits yielding all that we could expect to find in Finland,we could reasonably anticipate finding a great deal more,as well as many rare eastern species. The region, whichis the most north-eastern locality* in Europe accessibleto a collector, had never been more than half worked byornithologists, though Meves, of Stockholm, had visitedit in 1869. We heard,
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