182 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 
27. Winge’s Report on the Birds of the Danish Light¬ 
houses, 1909*. 
[Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1909. 27de Aarsberetning om danske- 
Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vid. Meddel. f. d. nat. For. i Kbhvn., 1910.] 
This is the twenty-seventh annual report on the birds killed 
at the Danish Lighthouses and sent to the Zoological 
Museum in Copenhagen for examination. In 1909, 1287 
such specimens were received from 37 Lighthouses, but the 
duplicates were not sent in all cases, and the total number 
of birds that perished in this way must have been at least 
3000. 
The specimens received in Copenhagen are referred to 85 
species, among which Alauda arvensis , Sturnus vulgaris, 
Sylvia hortensis , Phyllascopus trochilus , and Ruticilla phoeni- 
curus were numerous. Of the Thrushes, Turdus iliacus con¬ 
tributed 148 victims, T. musicus 133, T.pilaris 31, T. torquatus 
21, and T. merula 22, but of T. viscivorus only a single spe¬ 
cimen was received. Single specimens of Muscicapa parva 
and Phylloscopus superciliosus were taken. Of the Robin 
(Erithacus rubecula) 62 examples occurred. A large number 
of field-notes follow the systematic list, and a chart is added 
shewing the exact position of all the Lighthouses. 
YI.— Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 
We have received the following letters addressed to the 
Editors :— 
Sirs, —It may interest your readers to know that I have 
just received from the Vladivostok Museum for identification 
a small collection of 87 salted bird-skins, made this summer 
by Mr. I. E. Efresnov in the Khabarovsk district on the 
Lower Amur, near Lake Bolen-Adjal, and that the col¬ 
lection contained a male specimen of the Mergus squamatus 
of Gould procured by Mr. G. I. Kornilaev on the river Kur 
* For a notice of the Report for 1908, see 6 Ibis,’ 1909, p. 712o. 
