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The fare is coarse, chiefly black bread and eggs, with perhaps 

 a sole or piece of bacon ; but excellent butter and an almost 

 unlimited supply of cream make up for a multitude of 

 defects, and after a hard day's work one can eat almost 

 any thing. The charge for board and lodging is extremely 

 moderate. We were favoured with almost uniformly fine 

 weather; and one or two days while we were at List the 

 sandhills seemed thoroughly baked by the sun, and the heat 

 almost unbearable. 



Arranged in something like scientific order, my notes on 

 the birds we saw are as follows : — 



Circus ^ruginosus. 



On Sylt, as we passed a " Vogelkoje," about two miles 

 north of the village of Kampen, a bird rose from the low 

 bushes surrounding the pond, and we saw another soaring 

 high in the air. Returning past the place two days after- 

 wards we again flushed the bird ; and on going into the en- 

 closure I found a nest in a wet place amongst the low shrubs, 

 formed completely of reeds and heather, and raised about 

 eighteen inches off the ground. It contained four young, of 

 which I preserved two ; their stomachs were crammed with 

 the remains of frogs. On Amrum we observed a few at both 

 ends of the island beating up the sandhills for rabbits. On 

 Fohr we saw one or two pairs. 



CUCULUS CANORUS. 



This we found pretty common everywhere, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of dunes. 



Cypselus apus. 



Common on the mainland ; but we did not see it on the 

 islands. 



HiRUNDO RUSTICA. 



Common everywhere, the most numerous of the Hirundinse. 



HiRUNDO URBICA. 



Common. 



HiRUNDO RIPARIA. 



Pretty common. 



