92 RECURVIROSTRA AVOSETTA. 
fastened to a tablet. There is a considerable chance of this being an old 
Norfolk specimen, and, if so, perhaps the only one now in existence. The 
species, we know, bred abundantly at several localities in the county, in the 
days when Mr. Scales lived there, and he could have procured as many 
specimens as he wished from either the eastern or the northern breeding- 
place without difficulty, while there is nothing to shew that when in Holland 
he was ever at any place near which it did breed. ] 
[§ 3312. One.—Dybso, Zealand, Denmark, 12 May, 1889. 
From Herr Conservator Scheel, 1893 
Taken by Herr Robert Olsen and given by Herr Scheel to my brother 
Edward, who, however, suspected that it was from Rgnnen. | 
[§ 3313. Four.—Orum, Jutland, 26 May, 1893. From Herr 
Robert Olsen. 
Given to my brother Edward at Copenhagen (together with a young bird in 
spirit) by Herr Olsen, who wrote that he found them on a point of land in the 
Mrum Sé, which was being drained and converted into meadow. There were 
about thirty pairs of Avosets there then, The lake is near Vestervig, on the 
west coast of Jutland. | 
[§ 3314. One.—Dybs6, 26 June, 1893. 
This is hardly more thana fragment found by one of the party, HH. Baagoe, 
Olsen, Regenburg, and others, with whom my brother Edward visited the 
island on the day above stated. My brother wrote of it as follows :— 
“ We arrived at Dybsd Fjord at 2.50 p.m. and immediately got into two 
boats, sailing to the island in about a quarter of an hour. We could not get 
within 150 yards of dry land, and the boatman carried me on his back over the 
shallow interval. The island I should say was originally formed by a moraine, 
and increased by alluvial deposit from the river Susaa, which runs into the 
fjord opposite to the north end of the island. The moraine part is perhaps 
fifteen feet above high water, and the deposit has increased the size of the 
island to the north for about a quarter of a mile, and is there quite flat and not 
more than three feet above the sea-level. It is all covered with thick turf, 
eaten down as close as possible by the animals on it—about one hundred horses, 
mares and foals, one hundred and fifty oxen and cows, and some thirty sheep, 
all looking in excellent condition—and is everywhere covered with their 
droppings. It is in places broken up by shallow holes, a foot deep, caused, I 
fancy, by the winter high tides and gales. On this flat the birds, and especially 
the Avosets, breed. ‘There are in places hummocks of coarse grass, like large 
mole-hills, which appear by the runs to be the home of a small rat or mouse, 
but none of my companions could tell me the species. The island, I should 
judge, is nearly two English miles long, but we did not go toward the south 
end, haying landed about the middle and walked to the north and west. It 
