346 Herluf Winge. 



reports for i885 and 1886*); also for this- report he had 

 done some preparatory work. Notes from Kjöbenhavn. For 

 general remarks see Report i885. He was ill from the 

 beginning of February to the end of the vear; observations 

 were therefore almost conhned to immediate surroundings, 

 especially garden; only three times during the year he got 

 just beyond limit of suburh. Species observed consequently 

 only 84. — Some observations, signed H. W., have been, 

 made by myself. As my brother, also I have for several 

 years noted down the observations of every day; but my 

 notes during the two previous years generally being not 

 additional to his , they were not mentioned in the reports'^ 

 very many of our observations have been made in common 

 (and ihese are signed W.), Also I this year have been very 

 little in the field; total number of species observed by 

 me 82; together we have seen 96**); in more happy years 

 we use to see about i3o. 



Some notes from various sources, indicated in each 

 case, have been added bv the Compiler. 



From all the Light-stations, 64 in number (see Report 

 1886), reports have been sent in by the keepers. Only at 33 

 of the lights birds have been killed striking the lamerns; 



') It has been stated in England that the Report for 1885 »would 

 be of great use to persons visiting Dennnark in search of eggs«. My brother 

 would have been the first to deplore such advertisments. Gamekeepers 

 and egg-collectors have exterminated a good many of the wild birds of 

 England and rendered the British avifauna more uniform than it ought to 

 be ; students of nature mourn the loss of several species. Of gamekeepers 

 and collectors we have in Danmark already too many; it would be a 

 pity, if also strangers should join in destroying our fauna. Happily the 

 laws of our country give some protection. 



**) Besides those mentioned in text, the following: Astur pal um- 

 barius, Accipiter 7tisus , Syrnium aluco , Corvus corax, Pica caudata, 

 Garrulus glandarius, Picus major, Picus medius, Sitta europaea (s. Str.), 

 Certhia familiaris, Accentor modularis, Poecile palustris, Parus major, 

 Parus coeruleus, Calamoherpe phragmitis, Merula vulgaris, Miliaria 

 europaea, Passer montanus, Passer domesticus, Coccothraustes vulgaris, 

 Columba palumbus, Columba oenas, Eaematopus ostralegus, Fulica atra, 

 Tringa alpina, Cygnus olor, Anas boschas, Larus marinus, Larus argen- 

 tatus, Larus fuscus, Larus canus, Sterna argentata. 



