. 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 . seen, and we shotfour males and two females. In the village we met a shore-lark, the first we had seen for many days in the streets. The unfavourable-looking day proved one of the mostinteresting we had yet had. * The oyster-catcher (^ffwinatopusostraleguSj Linn.) appears to be confinedto the eastern hemisphere, only acci-dentally straying as far as Greenland ;being represented on the Americancontinent by a nearly allied species,Hcematopus pallia
. 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 . seen, and we shotfour males and two females. In the village we met a shore-lark, the first we had seen for many days in the streets. The unfavourable-looking day proved one of the mostinteresting we had yet had. * The oyster-catcher (^ffwinatopusostraleguSj Linn.) appears to be confinedto the eastern hemisphere, only acci-dentally straying as far as Greenland ;being represented on the Americancontinent by a nearly allied species,Hcematopus palliatis (Temm.). TheArctic circle appears to be the northernlimit of its range, and it does not ap-pear to visit South Africa, Australia,or New Zealand, being represented in the two latter countries by a nearlyallied species, Hcematopus longirostris(Gmel.). Throughout the greater partof its range the oyster-catcher is a moreor less partial resident, being a summeryisitant only in the extreme north, anda winter visitant in the extreme the valley of the Petchova we foundthem in small numbers up to abouttwenty miles within the Arctic OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS.
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