94 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Sheld-drakes. In the neighbourhood of Amager Fselled, on dry, 

 hard, stony waste just beyond the last buildings of the city, 

 Hr. Christiani pointed out to me the three species of Einged 

 Plover — Common, Little, and Kentish — all breeding on the same 

 ground. It would appear that birds must be comparatively un- 

 molested by the Danish boy, or the nesting of these Plovers in 

 numbers in such a locality, or that of the Einged Plover and 

 Little Tern on the much -frequented beach near Esbjerg, could 

 scarcely continue. In an interesting article, illustrated from 

 photographs, in the Danish Ornithologists' Union's journal, 

 Hr. E. Christensen has described the nesting of the three 

 species of Plover on somewhat similar ground at Frederiksholm 

 Tileworks, on the opposite side of Kalvebodstrand from Amager 

 Failed. 



With Hr. S. Saxtorph, of Hillerod, I visited the beautiful 

 Lyngby Skov, in North Sealand, near Arreso, the largest Danish 

 inland lake. This wood contains, in lofty oak-trees, a consider- 

 able heronry, of which Hr. Saxtorph has for years made a 

 study ; also a rookery, not just so common a thing in Denmark 

 as in England. 



Soborg Mose, near Copenhagen, though suburban villas are 

 gathering around it, is still a breeding-place of many marsh- 

 birds. A few Black Terns still nest there; there is a colony of 

 Black-headed Gulls, and Hr. N. Christiansen, in his list of 

 breeding species, includes the Eed-necked Grebe and four species 

 of Duck; also the Great Eeed-Warbler. 



Looking from the high-road, which passes close to the end of 

 the moss, a casual eye would note only, among the cultivated 

 fields and scattered houses, a narrow hollow with dense vegeta- 

 tion deeply green. But on approaching the edge a close growth 

 of strong aquatic plants is seen to rise from water some four 

 feet deep, and from thick mud below, forming a most im- 

 penetrable cover. 



The place is now strictly preserved by the owners of the 

 shooting rights, but in 1907 I made a voyage in a punt down the 

 broad central channel which drains the marsh. My boatman 

 was unwilling to leave this and push his boat into the tangle of 

 surrounding reed and sedge, so that I saw little of the bird-life 

 of the place ; only the Eeed-Buntings, Whinchats, and Yellow 



