. Siberia in Europe: a visit to the valley of the Petchora, in north-east Russia; with descriptions of the natural history, migration of birds, etc . sland was almost entirely a grassy marsh,interspersed with spaces of open water. A flock of Siberianherring-gulls hovered about a party of fishermen, who werecatching with a seine net a small fish exactly resemblingthe herring. Temmincks stints congregated in great num- CHAP. xvr. BOLVANKAYA BUCHT. 193 bers on the dry or drying mud, but we could find no trace oftheir nests. Phalaropes single and in ilocks were common;we took three of their nests,
. Siberia in Europe: a visit to the valley of the Petchora, in north-east Russia; with descriptions of the natural history, migration of birds, etc . sland was almost entirely a grassy marsh,interspersed with spaces of open water. A flock of Siberianherring-gulls hovered about a party of fishermen, who werecatching with a seine net a small fish exactly resemblingthe herring. Temmincks stints congregated in great num- CHAP. xvr. BOLVANKAYA BUCHT. 193 bers on the dry or drying mud, but we could find no trace oftheir nests. Phalaropes single and in ilocks were common;we took three of their nests, also one of a tern. Ducks asusual abounded; we noticed among them a pair of shovel-lers, and carried off a nest containing three eggs and a littledown, which belonged to this bird. On the rivej? we con-tinually passed flocks of scaup and black scoter. The sketch of Stanavialachta at the head of this chapterwas taken from the eyrie of one of the peregrines; thesecond eyrie was half-way down the point to the extremeleft. To the right in the distance is the eastern boundaryof the Bolvankaya Buolit; to the left, the outer islands of theDelta. ■. OLD EUSSIAN SILVER CROSS.
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