Snipe were numerous, and so were several kinds of wading and swimming birds.

Very often we saw high in air the wild geese of Siberia flying to the southward in those triangular squadrons that they form everywhere over the world.

These birds winter in the south of China, Siam, and India, while they pass the summer north of the range of the Yablonoi mountains.
The birds of the Amoor belong generally to the species found in the same latitudes of Europe and America, but there are some birds of passage that are natives of Southern Asia, Japan, the Philippine Islands, and even South Africa and Australia.

Seven-tenths of the birds of the Amoor are found in Europe, two-tenths in Siberia, and one-tenth in regions further south.

Some birds belong more properly to America, such as the Canada woodcock and the water ouzel; and there are several birds common to the east and west coasts of the Pacific.
The naturalists who came here at the Russian occupation found two Australian birds on the Amoor, two from tropical and sub-tropical Africa, and one from Southern Asia.
The number of stationary birds is not great, in consequence of the excessive cold in winter.