Items related to Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... the 12th June. Descending the river we saw Ruffs at their "hills" on the 17th June, and procured eggs as late as the 27th on an island opposite Stanavoialachta. Flocks of Ruffs were seen frequenting the marshy estuary of a small river, on the tundra opposite Alexievka, on the 9th July; and the autumn plumage was fully assumed by the 29th July, when we shot a Ruff at Dvoinik out of a flock in the same plumage in which they are shot in this country in September. Ruffs and Reeves were abundant on the islands, but comparatively scarce, or local, on the tundra. Tringa Subarquata, Giild. During a short half-hour that we visited Dvoinik, on the occasion of our first visit, Seebohm succeeded in securing a single example in full breeding-plumage, which was all we saw of the Curlew Sandpiper, unless six or seven other birds, which were feeding along with it at the time it was shot, were of the same species. We obtained no definite clue to its breeding-haunts; hut from the accounts we heard, conflicting and untrustworthy as these often were, we gathered that marshy plains and swamps of great extent lie along the courses of the numerous rivers and small streams which flow from the Pytkoff Mountains to the sea, to the north-eastward of Dvoinik. Of this fair land of promise we were only permitted to obtain a very distant and unsatisfactory view, as, on the only occasion when we might have seen it had the air been clear, from a height upon the tundra to the north of the inlet, a white mist lay along the distant hollows, completely concealing the features of the landscape. The Curlew-Sandpiper, as we learn from Mr. Bogdanoff, is seen on the Volga and Kama rivers during both migrations. Tringa Cinclus, L. We did not see the Dunlin at all during the time...
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