. 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 . catch them. The next day wevisited the same ground again. We did not see a singlebullfinch, but caught a glimpse of a small spotted crossed over to the banks of the Zylma, but the birchwoods there produced nothing but a solitary marsh tit, whichI shot. The woods round Ust-Zylma seemed to be absolutelyempty of bird life. Our iirst eight days had produced onlynine species of birds. During the following ten days weincreased our list by
. 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 . catch them. The next day wevisited the same ground again. We did not see a singlebullfinch, but caught a glimpse of a small spotted crossed over to the banks of the Zylma, but the birchwoods there produced nothing but a solitary marsh tit, whichI shot. The woods round Ust-Zylma seemed to be absolutelyempty of bird life. Our iirst eight days had produced onlynine species of birds. During the following ten days weincreased our list by only three birds—the bullfinch, theSiberian jay, and the Siberian marsh tit. throughout the whole of Siberia, andwhich bears the name of camtschat-iensif, has a still greyer back, and theblack of the head extends below theback of the head on to the upper intermediate form, however, occursin Japan, in which the black of the head also extends on to the upper back,but in which the colour of the upperparts is almost as brown as in theBritish form. In the valley of thePetchora we did not see this speciesfurther north than latitude 66°.. LASSOING KBINDEER. CHAPTEE yil. Trip to Habariki—Samoyedes — Lassoing reindeer ^-Dogs — Birds — Samoyedesledges — Reindeer harness — The chooms — Samoyede hospitality — Marriageceremonies—Funeral rites—Religion. It was quite obvious that we should make little Or no pro-gress in our ornithological researches until summer accordingly laid ourselves out to pick up further infor-mation about the Samoyedes, so that our time might notbe absolutely wasted. We had not yet visited any of theirchooms, or tents, and we were glad to learn from CaptainEngel that there were several in the neighbourhood ofHabariki. On Thursday morning we sledged over to thatvillage, a distance of forty versts. The road was about two- 64 SIBERIA IN EUROPE. chap. vii. thirds on the Petcliora, and the remaining third acrosscountry, principally i
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