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account of the royal preserves of ibex and of the chamois shooting in 

 the Piz Toreno, with some notes on Sardinian moufflon. 

 Woodcock in the rice-fields of Lombardy, and snipe in 

 the woods of Sardinian and Southern Italy are also dealt with ; and 

 fox-hunting is described as increasingly popular in the vicinity of 

 Rome, while there are also staghounds at Bologna. 



In the Portuguese article, again, sport in the royal parks takes 

 precedence. Wild boar are also hunted in sporting fashion in the 

 serras with the aid of the famous podengos, and ibex 

 are stalked in Gerez. There are special wolf-battues ; 

 and partridges, hares (both shot and hunted), rabbits, bustard, quail 

 and woodcock afford the sportsman varied amusement. Rod fishing- 

 is apparently undeveloped, but there are salmon in the Minho, and 

 trout should be found in all the mountain streams of the north. 



Bears, wolves, and boar abound in Roumania. The great red deer 

 has fallen off in numbers. Bohemian pheasants have been most 



successfully acclimatised, and there are partridges in the 



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Dobrutcha. The plams furnish bustard, quail, and 



woodcock, and wild fowl abound in the marshes ; but hares and rabbits 

 have become very scarce, a result attributed to coursing. The trout 

 of the Carpathian rivers is mentioned without enthusiasm. 



In Sweden and Norway, as in the two countries which follow, we 

 have considerable mountain systems, with a corresponding preponder- 

 ance of mountain game. The red deer of leased forests, with the 



wilder reindeer and elk, are the chief sporting animals of 

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Scandinavia ; but there are also bears in plenty, seals 



and otters are shot in the estuaries of salmon rivers, hares abound 



