. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . vening the sky had been full of sleet showers,but these gradually cleared away, and by midnight thesun blazed out from the fringe of the cloud rack. Thelight was so rich and golden that it looked, even if itdid not feel, warm, but the birds, following their usualcustom, were all at roost; and for three hours we sawvery few of them, except when a drowsy Temmincksstint fluttered out of the willows. Vassilli and I beatsystematically round a large lake; and presently heput up a cock willow-grouse, which only flew for ashort distance and then perched on a hillock.
. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . vening the sky had been full of sleet showers,but these gradually cleared away, and by midnight thesun blazed out from the fringe of the cloud rack. Thelight was so rich and golden that it looked, even if itdid not feel, warm, but the birds, following their usualcustom, were all at roost; and for three hours we sawvery few of them, except when a drowsy Temmincksstint fluttered out of the willows. Vassilli and I beatsystematically round a large lake; and presently heput up a cock willow-grouse, which only flew for ashort distance and then perched on a hillock. After his last mistake, Vassilli was burning to avengehimself upon all the grouse tribe, so he stalked thebird elaborately, and shot it. A long-tailed skua flewpast us. These bold, bad marauders fly up and downthe river night and day without resting, like spirits ofevil. About we returned to the river-bankto pick up Sylkin. The accounts of my excursions 1 ^ ■ 1 ^^M ^ 1 m 1 l^imw 1 %^ / Willow Gkousk ? (Lacopls albus)..
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