. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ellow-browed warbler. Thesnow in the forest still madewalking difficult and dis-aofreeable. I saw a smallflock of perhaps half a dozenbirds, which, judging fromtheir notes, I am all but surewere waxwings ; I could nothowever get near enough toidentify them. , Whilst I was walking inthe forest, picking my wayamongst the swamps and thefew remaining snow-fields, Iwas delighted once more to hear the alarm-note of thenutcracker. I was, however, unable to get a sight ofthe bird. A fortnight before
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ellow-browed warbler. Thesnow in the forest still madewalking difficult and dis-aofreeable. I saw a smallflock of perhaps half a dozenbirds, which, judging fromtheir notes, I am all but surewere waxwings ; I could nothowever get near enough toidentify them. , Whilst I was walking inthe forest, picking my wayamongst the swamps and thefew remaining snow-fields, Iwas delighted once more to hear the alarm-note of thenutcracker. I was, however, unable to get a sight ofthe bird. A fortnight before they had been commonenough near our quarters. These birds seem to be wellaware of the fact that offal and scraps of food of all kindsare always to be found in winter near the habitations ofman. Their tameness had been quite absurd. Some-times the Ostiak children shot one with a bow-and-arrow,and occasionally one was caught by the dogs. Whenthe breeding season began they seemed entirely tochange their habits. About the yth of June they retired,apparently, into the recesses of the forest. I was very. RUSSIAN IKON(Brass and enamel) 350 A BUSY WEEK ON THE KUREIKA anxious to secure a series of their eggs, and had carefully-looked after them, feeding them with the bodies of thebirds I skinned. They treated me, however, in the mostunofrateful manner. As soon as the snow was meltedfrom most of the ground they vanished, and all myefforts to discover their breeding-place proved in vain,thoueh I offered a considerable reward for a nestcontaining eggs. The Russians call the nutcracker theverofky, and both the peasants and the natives assuredme that no one had ever seen its nest. With theexception of a couple of birds which I picked up after-wards in full moult, I saw nothing more of them untilthey reappeared in flocks on the return journey. In the evening I spent some time watching thedouble snipes through my binocular. With a littlecaution I found it easy to get very near them, and fre-qu
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