. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE GREl rLIIVEli. ID'J eleven nests with eggs, iuwl also discovered the young in down. Tiie accompanying extracts from Air. Seebohm's account will give a good notion of the Ijreeding habits of the Grey Plover :—" We arrived at Alexievka," he writes, "on the evening of the 19th of June, and on the 22nd crossed the river to the land of promise, the Aarka Ya of the Samoyedes, the Bolshia Semlia of the Russians, the mysterious tundra (a sort of ornithological Cathay) of our little party. We mustered seven idtogether, our two se
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE GREl rLIIVEli. ID'J eleven nests with eggs, iuwl also discovered the young in down. Tiie accompanying extracts from Air. Seebohm's account will give a good notion of the Ijreeding habits of the Grey Plover :—" We arrived at Alexievka," he writes, "on the evening of the 19th of June, and on the 22nd crossed the river to the land of promise, the Aarka Ya of the Samoyedes, the Bolshia Semlia of the Russians, the mysterious tundra (a sort of ornithological Cathay) of our little party. We mustered seven idtogether, our two selves, our interpreter, Piottuch, and our crew of four, two Russians, a Samoyede, and a half-breed. It was a Inight warm day ; the wind drojjped, and it was too early in the season foi- mosquitoes to be troublesome, The tundra forms the east bank. of the Petchora ; and we had to climb up a steeji clitf (perhaps sixty feet high), a crumbling slope of clay-earth, sand, gravel, turf, but no rock. We then looked over a gently-rolling prairie country, stretching away to a flat plam, bej'ond which was a range of low, rounded hills, some eight or ten miles oil". It was, in fact, a moor, with here and there a large flat bog, and every- where abundance of lakes We had not walked more than a couple of miles inland before we came upon a small party of Plovers. They were very wild, and we found it impossible to get within shot: but a distant view through our binocular almost convinced us that we had met with tlie Grey Plover at last. We had not walked very far before other Plovers rose ; and we determined to commence a diligent search for the nest, and ofl'ere<l half a rouble to any of our men who should find one. Our intei-jireter laughed at us, and marched away into the tundra with a ' C'est impossible, monsieur!' We appealed to our Samoyede, who stroked his beardless chin, and cautiously replied 'Mozhna,' The other men wandered aimlessly np and dowm, but the Samoyede tramp
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