THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 825.— March. 1910. 



OENITHOLOGICAL notes fbom denmaek. 



By P. G. Ealfe. 



In spite of the universal lowness of its surface, Denmark is 

 a land of much beauty and of strong contrast. In West Jutland 

 the long undulations — wave following wave to the far horizon — 

 make a wide landscape, mysterious as the sea. Sometimes they 

 are checkered wtth unfenced fields, intersected by ribbons of 

 white road, and sprinkled with groups of low farm-buildings, 

 thatched and timbered, round which cluster a few small trees. 

 Sometimes they are clothed with the primitive brown heath, 

 varied by equally desolate " moser " and "kjcer,"* with their 

 swamp-pools, or by the sombre brushwood of the new fir-planta- 

 tions. The coast is a belt of yellow sand-hills ("klitter"), on 

 whose harbourless shores beat the tempest-driven waters of the 

 North Sea, and whose drifts ever threaten the dwindling crops 

 that a thrifty peasantry tries to rear under their landward 

 shelter. 



But on the eastern side of Jutland, and in Fiinen and Sea- 

 land, the land lies in wide sweeps of smiling pasture and corn- 

 land, with far-extending beech-woods of the tenderest green, with 

 still, meadow-bordered streams and lakes, with narrow firths 

 and straits whose waters gleam among the foliage, a succession 

 of idyllic pictures, until the one great city of the kirjgdom is 

 reached at its eastern extremity. 



* In Northern England "mosses" and " cars." 

 Zoot. 4th ser. vol. XIV., March, 1910. H 



