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same degree as is the case in Scotland. They are 
extremely plentiful in parts, and are often very tame ; 
but that they are capable of affording sport I disbelieve. 
_A cross between this bird and the skov-rype has 
never been found in Norway. I can assign no other 
reason but that they occupy totally different terrains, 
the ptarmigan never, or rarely, descending into the 
regions of grouse. 
The PartripGe (Agerhéne, or Raphons) has of late 
years been on the increase in the south and south- 
western parts of the country. In the neighbourhood of 
Christiania a few coveys may occasionally be seen, and 
on the islands in the fjord I have frequently seen a fair 
sprinkling. I do not know how far north they are 
to be found. An English gentleman who resided at 
Hamar, on the Midsen, had a covey on his grounds two 
or three years back. I am not aware that the “red 
legs” exist in the country. A friend of mine writes 
me word that when at Fleermoen, a little above lat. 
61°, on the borders of Sweden, between the Klar and 
Dal rivers, he found a covey of partridges. “I stopped 
the night,” he writes, ‘‘ at Fleermoen in a house round 
which there was a ‘clearing,’ and, as usual, made in- 
quiries about the game in the neighbourhood, both 
large and small. They did not give me a very pro- 
mising account: but mentioned that a ‘ pair of birds,’ 
they didn’t know what they were, had come over from 
