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inflicting terrible wounds. Young lynxes will generally 
run up a tree when hotly pursued; and, I am told, 
that by taking off one’s hat and placing it on a stick 
near the foot of the tree, they will remain there till it 
becomes quite dark. By far the greater number of 
these animals are trapped; for accounts of which the 
reader is referred to Mr. Lloyd’s ‘“ Scandinavian Ad- 
ventures.” 
I was struck one day on perceiving among the 
official returns of birds and beasts of prey slaughtered 
annually in Norway, the eagles figuring so largely. 
For the fifteen years from 1846 to 1860, the mar- 
vellous quantity of 48,455 eagles are stated to have 
been killed, giving an average of about 3,230 per 
annum; and as government gives a premium of half a 
dollar for every eagle, no less sum than 24,2264 dollars, 
or about £5,384, has been disbursed for eagles alone 
during that period. The law stands as follows :— 
“That every sea-eagle, eagle, whether young or old, 
shall be paid with half a dollar, and every mountain- 
owl or kestrel with one mark.” But in order to insure 
that the mousing hawks should not be included, it was 
determined that only those hawks which were not shot 
should obtain the premium; for it is an established 
fact that nine-tenths of the preying hawks are caught 
in nets. But to a Lensmand (a civil officer, a sort of 
bailiff ) not skilled in natural history, it is not difficult 
