ae SPORT IN NORWAY. 
have confined myself to those localities concerning 
which I have reliable information. 
On Hitteren, red-deer shooting may be had (vde 
Murray’s ‘ Handbook,’ p. 255); but they are rapidly 
diminishing in number, and will ere long, in all pro- 
bability, become extinct on that island. “In 1861,” 
a gentleman informs me, ‘I did not certainly see more 
than one-third of the number I had seen three years” 
before. The reason evidently is, that they are over- 
hunted by the proprietors, whom the ready market 
afforded by the steam communication with 'Throndhjem 
tempts to convert their venison into dollars. It is on 
this account, also, that there are no good heads on 
the whole island.” 
Red-deer shooting is, moreover, rather expensive 
work. In the first place, leave must be obtained of 
the proprietor, who not only expects the quarry, but 
a payment of three dollars for every deer that may be 
killed, and one dollar for the guide; and after all it is 
but tame work compared with reindeer hunting. In 
the north-western part of this island a fair sprinkling of 
black game and capercalzie may be found. yper are 
scarce, though there may be some on the sea side of the 
island. There is a great deal of marshy ground, where 
one would naturally imagine snipe to resort in great 
numbers, but I am not aware that they do come there. 
A friend of mine writes me word that in 1858 he 
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