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the picturesque description of the arrival and departure of the 
migratory birds, has been produced in a very widespread Danish 
reader for children — an honour very rarely bestowed on a zoo¬ 
logist. 
Great was the work which it was granted Winge to perform, 
but he was also a man who lost no time. With the utmost loyalty 
he attended to his duty at the Museum for half a day, spending 
the rest of it on studies in his home. He was so jealous of his 
time that even the most energetic attempts to make him join scient- 
ific meetings, collegiate gatherings, and the like, in the evening, 
remained absolutely ineffective. Thus apparently he became a 
lonely man, many people even called him a queer fellow. He was 
in reality neither one nor the other. At the Museum there was a 
daily run to his room by colleagues, friends of natural history, and 
all the many others from far and near who came to him for in¬ 
formation. Every one was received with the greatest kindness and 
amiability, and it was a pure joy to Winge to lay open his rich 
store of knowledge to the seeker of information. These visits how- 
ever took all the time that he thought he could spare for human 
intercourse, the afternoons and evenings he kept to himself for 
peaceful scientific studies and for struggling with the many pro¬ 
blems he raised. Friends were, however, sure of a hearty welcome 
when they came to see him in his bachelor’s home, a villa at the 
Sound in Hellerup, and it was a special joy to him to take the 
visitor into his “Ødemark“ (waste field), a spacious piece of ground 
which he had bought next to his garden. In this field plants were 
allowed to grow freely, and all kinds of animals, happening to get 
in, found a sanctuary there. In these surroundings, with the Sound 
to one side and “Ødemarken” to the other, Winge was able to 
make studies in the open air, to his heart’s content, especially of 
the birds’ habits; but he also made frequent excursions to Char- 
lottenlund, Gentofte Lake, Jægersborg Wood, and Dyrehaven, with 
the higher animal life of which he was more intimately acquainted 
than anybody else. — That Winge with his highly refined spirit 
and deep feeling was a warmhearted friend of animals is a matter 
of course, and on many occasions he very strongly pleaded for 
protection of animals. 
When his parents died Winge became financially well situated, 
