. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . Whistling for my companion to come up, Ibegan to run the tree over with my telescope, when, tomy great delight, I caught sight of my bird lying deadon a spray within six inches of the top. We saw nomore of these birds during the morning, but shot twowheatears, which had by this time grown common, a pairof blue-throated warblers and a willow-wren. Nearly allthe green wagtails which we saw had more or lessbrown on the breast; they were doubtless last yearsbirds which had not yet assumed the ful
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . Whistling for my companion to come up, Ibegan to run the tree over with my telescope, when, tomy great delight, I caught sight of my bird lying deadon a spray within six inches of the top. We saw nomore of these birds during the morning, but shot twowheatears, which had by this time grown common, a pairof blue-throated warblers and a willow-wren. Nearly allthe green wagtails which we saw had more or lessbrown on the breast; they were doubtless last yearsbirds which had not yet assumed the full mature our return a peasant brought us three young ravensand some ducks eggs, probably pintails. That day I io6 THE PETCHORA IN FLOOD recorded in my journal, with many groans, the firstappearance of the mosquitoes. Horrid-looking beasts,with bodies a third of an inch long, monsters, the Culexdainnabilis of Rae, with proboscis infernali veiienoniunitay I foresaw that we should have opportunitiesenough to study the natural history of these bloodthirstycreatures to our hearts OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS
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