182 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



27. Winge's Report on the Birds of the Danish Light- 

 houses, 1909*. 



[Fuglene vecl de danslie Fyr i 1909. 27de Aarsberetning- om danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Wiuge. Vid. Meddel. f. d. nat. For. i Kbhvn., 1910.] 



This is the twenty-seventh annual report on the birds killed 

 at the Danish Li<^hthouses and sent to the Zoological 

 Museum in Copenhagen for examination. In 1909, 1287 

 such specimens were received from 37 Lighthouses, but the 

 duplicates were not sent in all cases, and the total number 

 of birds that perished in this way must have been at least 

 £000. 



The specimens received in Copenhagen are referred to 85 

 species, among which Alauda arvensis, Sturnus vulgaris, 

 Si/lvia hortensis, Phijlloscopus trochilus, and Ruticilla pha^ni- 

 curus were numerous. Of the Thrushes^ Turdus iliacus coii- 

 triljuted 148 victims, T. inusicuslSS, T. pilaris 3i, T. torquatus 

 21, and T. merula 22, but of T. viscivorus only a single spe- 

 cimen was received. Single specimens of Muscicapa parva 

 and Phylloscopus superciliosus were taken. Of the llobin 

 [Eritliacus rubecula) 62 examples occurred. A large number 

 of field-notes follow the systematic list, and a chart is added 

 shewing the exact position of all the Lighthouses. 



VI. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



We have received the following letters addressed to the 



Etlitors : — 



Sirs, — It may interest your readers to know that I have 

 just received from the Vladivostok Museum for identification 

 a small collection of 87 salted bird-skins^ made this summer 

 by Mr. I. E. Efresnov in the Khabarovsk district on the 

 Lower Amur, near Lake Bolen-Adjal, and that the col- 

 lection contained a male specimen of the Mergus squamatus: 

 of Gould procured by Mr. Gr. I. Kornilaev on the river Kur 



* For a notice of the Kcport for 1908, see ' Ibis,' 1909, p. 712. 



