166 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
others of the grouse tribe, the male capercalzie is 
extremely pugnacious. 
The best plan, perhaps, for securing sport either 
among these birds, hjerper, or black game, is the 
one adopted by the Bonder themselves. They use 
a little dog which ranges rather widely, and which 
commences to give tongue when on scent. The birds 
then invariably perch close by, and the dog remains 
barking at the foot of the tree in question till his 
master comes up. 
A small-bored rifle is generally used, though as 
regards the calibre the peasants are not particular ; for 
to get the bird is with them the main object. Shot 
guns, in fact, are but little known in the interior. 
The capercalzie are tiresome birds, because they run 
so prodigiously, and when they do rise it is generally 
out of shot. I would warrant them to spoil any 
dog, however steady, in a very short time. 
During the summer the tiur lives as an old bachelor, 
and will only be found in remote parts of the forest, 
high up towards the fjelds. 
The Brack Game (Urhane) are very numerous in 
parts of Norway, and as the reader must be perfectly 
familiar with their habits it would be superfluous to 
say much about them here. 
The cross between the black game and capercalzie is 
by no means uncommon. It takes place, probably, be- 
