GAME LAWS WILD ANIMALS. 175 



For swans, common wild ducks, eider, and double snipes 

 (why woodcocks and common snipe should not be protected 

 I cannot see), from the 10th July, to the 15th March. 



The eggs of all the above-named birds are to be pro- 

 tected. The fine for killing any of the above-mentioned 

 game, except elk, or buying it out of season, to beTfrom 

 10s. to 10. 



No dogs to be used for hunting in the forest from the 

 15th March to the 10th August, except for bear, wolf, lynx, 

 or glutton. 



If these laws are only properly observed, in a few years 3 

 time, we may expect to see as good wild shooting in Sweden 

 as any country in Europe, for nothing keeps the stock of 

 game down in this country, so much as the total and wanton 

 disregard of the laws relating to its preservation. 



The fine for trespass will probably hereafter be from 

 10s. to 5. 



These laws will only relate to Sweden, not Norway. I 

 do not, however, see how game can be protected, unless 

 regular game-keepers are appointed on every estate. 



The list of animals pursued either for sport or profit in 

 Sweden includes the following : The bear, wolf, elk, rein- 

 deer, roedeer, lynx, glutton, otter, marten, badger, fox, 

 Arctic fox, hare, squirrel. 



The red deer is occasionally met with, according to 

 Nilsson, in some of the forests in Skane and Western Got- 

 land, and I believe also on the west coast of Norway ; but it 

 is certainly so rare that I cannot include it in my list. I 

 never either saw or heard of one being killed in Sweden. 

 Here and there a fallow deer may be seen tame in a park in 

 the south, but they were never wild in Sweden. 



The beaver may be said now, to be entirely rooted out of 

 all parts of Sweden, except the very north. Some few, 

 however, still remain in the wilds of Lapland and Finmark, 

 for between the years 1857 and 1860, 67 beavers were killed 

 up towards the North Cape. 



The list of feathered game will include the capercaillie, 

 black grouse, hazel grouse, ptarmigan, willow grouse, par- 



