192 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
to palm off the young of the larger hawk tribes as 
eaglets. 
Accordingly, Professor Rasch computes that out of 
the 64,129 preemia that have been paid for birds of 
prey during the fifteen years, 50,000 have been dis- 
bursed wrongly ; and what is still worse, that the 
greater part of the alleged eagles have belonged to the 
useful kinds of mousing hawks. And he considers, 
therefore, that the law has not only been injurious to 
Norway, but also to Europe in general, and adds, in 
the report he has drawn up, ‘As all these birds are 
migratory, it is almost certain that the zmmense quan- 
tities which have been slaughtered here have been the 
main cause of the numerous complaints that have been 
made in parts of Germany at the diminution of the 
mousing hawks.” 
In Norway, as in other countries, the eagle and sea- 
eagle are not common birds. 
