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Amager. February i4th three; next on March 6th, a 

 large flock. Not tili March 28th found in numbers every- 

 where. — June 6th first flocks of young. June i4th, in the 

 reeds of the moats, three, young, quite drenched, allowing 

 themselves to be taken by hand; plumage fully developed. 

 — October 24th last flock; 3 ist two. November 2 ist and 

 December 25th. each day one. (K.) 



Storehedinge. January gth (hard winter) a few had 

 arrived. (A.) 



Herschendsgave. One came on February i5th, but 

 after a few days it disappeared; not tili March i2th was 

 the Starling observed again. According to my notes it has 

 never before arrived so late; even in the hard winter of 

 1880 — 81, when a single one had appeared in the beginning 

 of February, it came again on March 8lh. (Hs.) 



Viborg. February 2Sth one, but not tili March 2 ist 

 a larger flock. Exceedingly numerous in and around Viborg. 

 In autumn every afternoon enormous numbers gather in 

 all high trees in town, whence they fly off at dusk to roost 

 in the reeds of the lake. October 2 5th the bulk left, and 

 after that day only single birds or sometimes a small flock 

 were seen. (F.) 



Sent from the Lights. September: 3oth *) Anholt i. 

 October: 2d Hammershus i. gth Hesselö i. igth Anholt 

 r. 2ist Anholt i (12 killed). 22d Schultz's Grund L. V. i, 

 Christiansö i, Hammershus 2, Gjedser Rev L. V. i. 23d 

 Anholt I (5 killed), HesselÖ 3 (20 killed). 24th Läsö Rende 

 L. V. I, Anholt i (4 killed). 25th Schultz's Grund L. V. 

 I. November: 3d Schultz's Grund L. V. i. 



23. Lycos monedula, L. — Allike. 



Kjöbenhavn. Breeds. From beginning to close of year. 

 Actual migration observed in March as follows : 24th, 11,10 

 A. M. to i,3o P. M. : ten to E., nine to E. N. E., two and 

 one Crossing Sound to E., nearly forty crossing Sound to 



*) A night always dated with the day foUowing, 



