Identifier: travelsofnatural02harv (find matches)
Title: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916
Subjects: Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ppeared to form a winding chain through the woods,joined here and there by swamp, and in other places bydeep, water-worn trenches. These are doubtless formedby the previous higher floods of the great river, succeededby the scorching rays of the hot sun of the short Arcticsummer. Some have become dry and parched-up, andothers retain a considerable amount of moisture. Koundthe lakes the forest stands like a wall, the stems of thetrees bleached white with sun and water, and ice-scraped,to the height of five or six feet. The new arrivals seen by us at Habarika were Smews,Goosanders, Black-throated Divers, Great Snipe, Cuckoo,Terek Sandpipers, Yellow-headed Wagtail, Golden Eagle,Hobby, Waxwings, and Osprey; and other birds seenwere the Magpie, Wigeons, Teals, Pintails, Redwings,Fieldfares, Bluethroats, Siberian Chiflchaff, SiberianTit, Capercaillie, Willow Warblers, Little Bunting, Blue-headed Wagtail, Brainblings, liedpolls, Ring-Dotterels,Stonechats, Hooded Crow, Siberian Jay, Three-toed
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OSPRKVs NEST ON THE TOP OP A RKOKEN LARCH.Drawn from Meraory and re-dr;iwn by J. Pt»«Uler. To face jiayf 339. PETCHORA 339 Woodpecker, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, Goldeneye,Tree Sparrow, Pine Grosbeak, Barn Swallow, Keed Bunt-ing, White Wagtail, L«;-«s cachinnans,Be3bn Goose, Bed-start, Buffs, Temmincks Stint, Golden Plover, CommonGull, Bewicks Swan, Snipe, and Wheatear. Golden Eagle.—Several Eagles were seen, and oneidentified as belonging to this species. Ospreij.—One bird of this species flew overhead, andwhen fired at dropped from its feet a large bunch of dampgreen moss, which it was doubtless bearing away to itsnest. A nest presumed to be of this species was observedat a distance, on the top of a broken-topped larch onthe far side of the swamp. Hohhy.—One fine S was shot while perched on ahorizontal branch of a larch on the edge of the swampbehind the village. Three-toed Woodpecker.—We saw only three of thisbird, although all the larches in the forest had their barkr

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