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WILD NORWAY. 
account of two voyages thither. To the naturalist, 
Denmark, as a whole, presents a dreary monotony of 
pettiness and poverty; but there are certain richer 
nooks, and in out-of-the-way corners of Jutland we 
came across a variety of bird-life which I have thought 
worthy of record herein. On our second visit, it befell 
my brother Alfred and myself to meet with a species 
which we should least have expected, and which forms 
a new and truly remarkable addition to the Scandi¬ 
navian avifauna—I refer to the Pelican (Pelecanus 
onocrotalus), a bird whose ordinary habitat is in the 
south-east of Europe. Certain ornithologists in Copen¬ 
hagen were not only sceptical, but waxed sarcastic over 
our pelicans, hinting that we had been deceived by the 
hildring, or “ false view ” (mirage), common on all such 
low-lying coasts, and had mistaken sea-gulls for birds 
of ten times their bulk. I have attempted, in the rough 
sketch opposite, to portray what we really did see that 
May morning on the sand-spits of the Jutland coast. 
