. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . swans weresailing. The graceful birds, however, did not give usthe chance of a shot. Upon this island we had anexcellent view of our first great black-backed gulls, andalso of Buffons skua. The former were sitting amidstseveral Siberian herring-gulls, but their superior sizeallowed us to identify them at a glance. The Arctic tern 132 OUR VOYAGE TO THE DELTA was breeding on this island, while ruffs, phalaropes, andTemmincks stint abounded upon it. Cn one part,covered with dwarf willows, inters
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . swans weresailing. The graceful birds, however, did not give usthe chance of a shot. Upon this island we had anexcellent view of our first great black-backed gulls, andalso of Buffons skua. The former were sitting amidstseveral Siberian herring-gulls, but their superior sizeallowed us to identify them at a glance. The Arctic tern 132 OUR VOYAGE TO THE DELTA was breeding on this island, while ruffs, phalaropes, andTemmincks stint abounded upon it. Cn one part,covered with dwarf willows, interspersed with taller trees,I heard to my astonishment the warble of the Siberianchiffchaff, two specimens of which I secured. The red-throated pipits were there perching, as usual, in theboughs, and I noticed also one or two of our new pipitsand a number of reed-buntings. This bird-haunted island was our last stoppage beforereaching Alexievka. We arrived at our destination onthe evening of the 19th of June, after ten days voyagedown the great river and through the intricacies of themonotonous PLOUGHING AT UST-ZYLMA
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