The Tatars of the Minusinsk district of the Yeneseisk government:--1, the mild, easy month, or forest-month, since the people go hunting, about September; 2, little cold; 3, great cold; 4, the mottled month, bald patches of earth appear among the snow; 5, severe cold; 6, high, when the sun moves high above the horizon; 7, when the birds fly out in spring; 8, they (i. e. the days) increase; 9, the red month; 10, (perhaps) little drought; 11, birch-bark month, when birch-bark is collected; 12, grass month; 13, harvest month. There are also some variants which are not translated. The Karagasses, who live next to the Minusinsk Tatars:--1, 1/5-4/6, month of the low grass; 2, 4/6-2/7, birch-bark month, in which birch-bark is collected, this being used for the summer houses; 3, 2/7-30/7, month in which the lily-bulb is red, i. e. blossoms; 4, 30/7-27/8, month in which the lily-bulb is dug up; 5, 27/8-24/9, hammer month, when the cedar is tapped with the hammer in order to shake down the ripe cones with the nuts; 6, 24/9-22/10, reindeer-buck rutting month; 7, 22/10-19/11, sable month, when people begin to trap sables; 8, 19/11-17/12, month of the long rest, such as is taken during the short days; 9, 17/12-15/1, month of frost; 10, 15/1-12/2, great frost-month; 11, 12/2-12/3, snow-shoe month, when over the deep but rotting snow deer and elks are hunted in snow-shoes; 12, 12/3-9/4, month when the snow becomes sticky; 13, 3/4-7/5, month in which people hunt with dogs; this is the time when, owing to the night-frosts, a crust forms on the snow, which is not strong enough to bear deer and elks. The dates given by the author can at most be applied only to one definite year. The Buriats, from the new year:--1, month in which the brooks freeze; 2, when the winter stores are seen to; 3, roe moon; 4, deer moon; 5, sheep moon; 6, when the ice breaks; 7, spring moon; 8, grass moon; 9, bulb moon; 10, milk moon; 11, milch moon; 12, when after-math comes; 13, when it ripens; the first month is also called the white month. The Nishne-Udinsk Buriats:--1, roe month, since in this month horns grow on the roe; 2, deer month, when the deer is caught; 3, ram month, when the sheep pair; 4, month of the red ridge of land, when the snow melts and the mountains become red; 5, fish-spawning month; 6, leek month; 7, the wild month, so called on account of the fierce heat; 8, roe month, when the roes pair; 9, deer month, when the deer pair; 10, squirrel month, since this animal is then caught; 11, the little sable month, sables are caught; 12, nest month, since the animals, on account of the cold, creep into their dens and nests. Only twelve months, therefore, as also among the Tunkinsk Buriats, for whom are translated only:--1, the white month; 2, the red mountain-ridge; 5, the wild month; 11, roe month; 12, deer month.