ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM DENMARK. 87 



stantial wooden building near the north end is used by Govern- 

 ment employees, especially in summer, when the peninsula is 

 farmed for grazing. In winter multitudes of Swans, Geese, and 

 Ducks frequent the place. 



I visited Tipperne from Tarm on May 25th, 1909, having, 

 through the good offices of the British Consulate, obtained a 

 pass from the Ministry. I cycled to North Bork, on the east 

 shore of the Fjord, with Hr. Hvass, of the Bealskole at Tarm, 

 and Hr. Brink, who has an exhaustive knowledge of the bird-life 

 of the neighbourhood. At Bork we got a boat to ferry us over 

 to the peninsula, and then made our way to its extreme point, 

 wandering over the even grass-land, and sometimes wading 

 through shallow channels which separated one "Fold" from 

 another, or outlying islets from what was, comparatively speak- 

 ing, mainland. 



Over the grassy surface of Tipperne breed great numbers of 

 Lapwings, Buffs, Kedshanks, and Dunlins, and not a few Black- 

 tailed Godwits, the nests of all being on much the same kind of 

 ground, but those of Buffs, Bedshanks, and Dunlins better con- 

 cealed than the others. The nests of Buffs and Godwits were 

 naturally most interesting to me ; those of the former, like 

 Bedshank's, hidden in the more luxuriant tufts of herbage, 

 containing the four richly-marked eggs ; while the four dull- 

 coloured eggs of the Godwits lay very open, the parents, which 

 at the nest are very wild and shy, flying high overhead, and 

 uttering their wild screaming notes. 



On one of the driest parts of the peninsula were a good 

 many nests of Common Gull, usually with their complement of 

 three eggs, while a large colony of Black-headed Gulls centred 

 amid thick-growing water-plants, and other nests of the same 

 species were placed on an islet some distance out in the shallows, 

 easily reached by wading. Most of the nests of the Black- 

 headed Gull had recently been robbed, this being allowed to a 

 certain date, and they now frequently contained one egg only. 

 On the islet was a Pintail's nest with eggs, and there also Terns 

 (a medium-sized species, probably macrura) were just com- 

 mencing to lay, while others had selected some little spots of 

 dry ground m a pond amid the grass of the mainland. In 1908 

 a large colony of Sandwich Terns had bred on open ground 



