ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM DENMARK. 95 



Wagtails which frequented its margins ; a flight of a Duck now 

 and then to or from the cover; the many Reed-Warblers along 

 the channels, a chance Snipe rising from my feet on a grassy 

 knoll, a distant flock of Black-headed Gulls, and a few Black 

 Terns passing Swallow-like on the wing. We reached neither 

 the colony of Gulls nor that of Terns, which in the case of the 

 latter was a considerable disappointment. 



Of Danish small birds, I have not much to say. Most of the 

 species familiar in the British lowlands are to be met with some- 

 what as at home. Chaffinches dominated in Dyrehaven, and, 

 with other English birds of wood and garden— Finches, Warblers, 

 and Thrushes — were abundant in such places as Christianslund 

 at Nyborg, and the beautiful belt of woodland which covers the 

 old fortification surrounding the pleasant town of Fredericia. I 

 heard the Wood- Warbler in Lyngby Skov and in Kongelund; 

 in Dyrehaven we failed to hear it on June 11th, probably on 

 account of the late date, for Hr. Schioler tells me it is common 

 there. The Nightingale (the Eastern species) is found in many 

 places about Copenhagen. Tree-Sparrows I saw in several 

 localities, including the suburbs of Copenhagen. Reed-Warblers 

 were abundant in suitable spots, as Tipperne, Klasgbanken, and 

 Soborg, and Reed-Buntings frequent along the pools and ditches. 

 I saw a few Goldfinches ; the species is more common in Den- 

 mark than in Britain. Everywhere on the open lands of West 

 Jutland and elsewhere the Sky-Lark, as already mentioned, was 

 abundant ; in West Jutland the Corn-Bunting was also a con- 

 spicuous bird. 



The White Wagtail and the Blue-headed Wagtail were two 

 species of special interest to an Englishman as Continental forms 

 of familiar insular birds ; the latter was especially frequent on 

 the damp meadow-lands of West Jutland, and on the levels of 

 Amager with the Whinchat, another common Danish bird. 

 Everywhere along the coast I met with a few Wheatears, but 

 never with a Stonechat (the latter is very uncommon in Den- 

 mark). 



Common in every part of Denmark, and forcing itself on the 

 attention of the most careless, is the Icterine Warbler, with its 

 loud, cheerful, squeaking song and restless movements, frequent- 

 ing the trees by the roadside and the shrubs in the gardens of 



