. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. A SPILL IN THE SNOW CHAPTER VIII. LIFE IN UST-ZYLMA. May-day—Snow-buntings—Jackdaws—Game—Birds of Prey—Sundayat Ust-Zylma—A Fire—Marriage Ceremony—Tenure of Land—TheCommune—Preparations for Summer. On May-day the thaw continued in real earnest. A warmwind and a hot sun made oreat havoc with the snow. All o traces of the heavy fall of the previous Sunday nightsoon disappeared, and a considerable portion of the oldaccumulation of winter melted. Ust-Zylma became oncemor
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. A SPILL IN THE SNOW CHAPTER VIII. LIFE IN UST-ZYLMA. May-day—Snow-buntings—Jackdaws—Game—Birds of Prey—Sundayat Ust-Zylma—A Fire—Marriage Ceremony—Tenure of Land—TheCommune—Preparations for Summer. On May-day the thaw continued in real earnest. A warmwind and a hot sun made oreat havoc with the snow. All o traces of the heavy fall of the previous Sunday nightsoon disappeared, and a considerable portion of the oldaccumulation of winter melted. Ust-Zylma became oncemore a vast dunghill, and on the hills, where the snow insome places lay exceptionally deep, it was too soft to bearour weight, even on snow-shoes. We attempted ourusual ramble in the woods at the back of the town ; buttravelling was very laborious, and we returned to ourquarters with broken snow-shoes, and without having JACKDAWS 69 remarked anything of special interest. With the exception of a yellow-hammer, which was making a feebleattempt to sing, we scarcely saw or heard a bird. Oneeffect of the thaw
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