CHAPTER XI. 



Shooting Ripa at the Lek-stalle — To the Pointer. — Migrations to the 

 Coast — How Caused. — Enormous Packs. — Tracking. — Shot 

 when "Treed." — By Bloss at Night. — Traps and Snares. — The 

 Ei p-Hag. — Anecdote. —Large Captures. — The Snar-gang. 



VAST numbers of Eipa are annually killed in Scan- 

 dinavia, especially during the winter, when their 

 transit is easv to the distant towns, which constitute the 

 chief and almost only market. Not a few of l)oth species 

 fall to the gun at the " Lek-stalle," in the manner that I 

 am about to describe. 



"About one o'clock in the morning," says Nilsson, 

 when speaking of the Dal- Eipa, " the male begins to 

 7'axa, or give utterance to its loud ^«v/-, ^jacZ; jn-rr, 

 and its deeper kamu, kavmt. The female responds with 

 a subdued njau, njau, which she often repeats, and in 

 the while the sexes approach each other. Should the 

 fowler at such times imitate the call-note of the fe- 

 male, a reply is soon received from the male, and if 

 he then conceals himself behind a bush or a stone, and 



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