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marsh- and water-birds are being destroyed; and I was told 
that the workmen employed on these operations sometimes 
almost lived on the eggs of Gulls, Terns, Avocets, and other 
birds. 
After leaving Viborg we proceeded to a place called Tarm, 
near the south end of the Ringkoping fjord, and situated in 
the midst of an extensive tract of marshes. This had been 
constantly spoken of by Mr. Benzon as the source of many 
of his oological treasures, and as one of the finest places for 
a collector in Denmark. Here we were joined by Mr. See- 
bohm, who had been detained at Berlin, and we lost no time 
in exploring the country. ‘arm isasmall village, possessing 
a very tidy inn and a station on the railway, which runs all 
round the west coast of Jutland. It is about four miles from 
the debouchure of a fair-sized river into the Ringkoping 
fjord, and is at the head of a flat delta-like marsh of several 
thousand acres in extent. This marsh is, in summer, grazed 
by cattle, and is, for the most part, sound land intersected by 
ditches and interspersed with rushy pcols and shallow 
marshes. It appeared to us a paradise for wading birds, 
though, on account of its extent, they did not seem so nu- 
merous as they would have done in a smaller marsh. The 
great object of our search was Scolopax major, which breeds 
here in considerable numbers, at, perhaps, the most southerly 
locality in Europe for its nesting. 
Though the birds were tolerably numerous, it was soon 
evident that we were too early, and, though Mr. Benzon 
has received eggs in former years taken on the 9th of May, 
their usual time for laying here is not much before the 
last week in May, whilst, according to Mr. Godman (Ibis, 
. 1861, p. 87), it does not breed at Bodo till towards the end of 
June. So, at least, we were told by the local collector from 
whom most of Mr. Benzon’s eggs were procured ; and though 
we searched diligently, and one bird which I shot had a large 
egg inside her, we could find no nest. At first Mr. Seebohm 
thought that there might be some doubt as to whether the 
birds we saw were not merely on migration to the north, and 
some of them possibly might have left the place later, as they 
