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whatever of the Jura, as for instance, the chamois, the marmot, the 

 Alpine hare, and the blackcock. 



It is in the mountains that we may look for the most interesting- 

 game. Of the chamois, red and roe deer, wild boar, marmot, and 

 Alpine and common hares, I shall now offer a few particulars in 

 rapid review. 



Together with the stag, the chamois is the most noble game of 



the country. There was always great slaughter of chamois in certain 



of the cantons, Grisons and Valais for example, and at 

 Chamois. 



one time it looked as if the animal would disappear 



altogether. Fortunately the establishment of closed areas has latterly 



restored the animal in numbers. The pursuit of this ruminant 



is the most uncertain in all Switzerland. It is shot in almost all 



the Alpine districts. The greatest number are killed in the Grisons 



(1,700 head in the year 1886), owing to the fact that the nature 



of the mountain range is peculiarly favourable to the increase of 



this animal. 



The superb stag, which until the last century flourished in various 



cantons, had all but disappeared. A few, it is true, were met with 



in the eastern portion of the Grisons, particularly in the 

 Red Deer. . ^ . 



Prattigau. They came by way of the mountains of 



Vorarlberg and from the principality of Lichtenstein. Since the 



year 1893 they have been seen in the Vaudois Jura, and since that 



time, thanks to Government support, in that canton the species has 



prospered. These animals spread rapidly towards the north, and 



have been seen as far as the canton of Argovie. They are likewise 



met with in the cantons of Berne and Fribourg^. Shootino- red deer 



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