ARKIV V(m ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 3. N:o 9. 



N. Y. ACADEMV 



OF Sciences 



Oii the geograpliic races of red deer in 

 Scandiiiavia. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 

 Read November 8th 1905. 



Since time iramemorial the red deer has inhabited two 

 widely different districts in Scandinavia, one in southern Swe- 

 den and the other in western Norway. The former of these 

 extended in bygone days probably över the greater part of 

 Göta land. It is at least known that red deer was at home 

 in Southern Östergötland, in Ydre härad till about 1770^ and 

 in this district it was certainly quite wild. Whether the red 

 deer on the islands Kållandsö and Spårö in Lake Vänern 

 were originally introduced there or not is difficult to decide 

 with full certainty. and different opinions have been pro- 

 nounced with regard to this. The last of this stock was, hovv- 

 ever, shot about 1 840. At present the red deer is in Sweden 

 confined to southern Scania and there chiefly found on a few 

 large estates Häckeberga, Ofvedslyloster, Börringe, Söfdeborg, 

 Snogeholm, Skabersjö etc. The number is quite small, per- 

 haps not more than about 100 in all. In earJier days the 

 red deer extended further north when the climate was more 

 congenial and a richer flora covered the country during the 

 Littorina epoch. How far north the deer were distributed 



' L. F. Rääf: Sv. Jägarförl). n. Tidskr. Arg. 4. lift 2, p. 08. Stock- 

 holm 1866. 



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