x INTRODUCTION. 



globe, men now " scamper through " lands, which twenty 

 years ago they knew only on the map, and I have 

 no doubt that more than one traveller who has " done " 

 Sweden, has given the English his opinion of the country 

 and its inhabitants. But strange to say, the only book 

 I know which gives anything like a correct idea of 

 the country, and more especially of that talismanic attrac- 

 tion to the British wanderer, its "field sports," is Lloyd's 

 ' ' Northern Field Sports," and as that book was written 

 some years since, and Sweden has, like all other countries, 

 undergone a considerable change since that date, I make 

 no apology for introducing this little work to the English 

 reader ; believing that many a brother naturalist and 

 sportsman, would run over and enjoy a ramble in this land 

 of " flood and fell," if he only knew how easily such a trip 

 might be performed, and had something like an accurate 

 idea of what sport he was likely to meet with, and what 

 treatment he would receive at the hands of the inhabi- 

 tants. 



I may here observe, however, that I do not flatter my- 

 self that the contents of the following pages are altogether 

 new or original. Of course I have been much indebted to 

 others, for the information which they contain. Without 

 Agardth's and Ljunberg's statistics, I could never have 

 completed my task, and without the aid of Nilsson I should 

 never have been able to lay before the reader, so complete 

 an account of the Scandinavian fauna as I have done. I 

 have, however, added much matter which has come under 

 my own personal observation, and, whenever I have 

 quoted anything I have taken as much pains as I 

 could to ascertain its correctness. I therefore confidently 

 think that the reader may pretty well rely upon the 



