PE Heres: 
FOURTH SERIES. 
No. XVI. OCTOBER 1880. 
XXXIX.—Field-notes on the Birds of Denmark. 
By H. J. Exwss. 
Tuoucu Denmark is within easy reach of England, it seems 
to have received but little attention from English or foreign 
ornithologists, and nothing of importance has been written 
on the birds of the country except by Danish naturalists. 
Having three weeks to spare last May, I determined to ex- 
plore, as far as my time allowed, some part of the country ; 
and, owing to the kindness with which I was received by 
Pastor F'. Theobald and Mr. Alfred Benzon of Copenhagen, 
both well known as working ornithologists, and the advan- 
tage I had in being accompanied by the latter gentleman for 
the greater part of the time, I was successful in seeing and 
taking the eggs of several birds which are very rare or do 
not breed in other parts of Kurope. 
Leaving Copenhagen on May 6th, I, with Mr. Benzon 
and his obliging and clever assistant, Mr. Seehusen, arrived at 
Aalborg, in North Jutland, the same night, and on the follow- 
ing morning drove about fifteen miles to the forest of Dron- 
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