34 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



have confined myself to those localities concerning 

 which I have reliable information. 



On Hitteren, red-deer shooting may be had (vide 

 Murray's ' Handbook,' p. 253) ; but they are rapidly 

 diminishing in number, and will ere long, in all pro- 

 bability, become extinct on that island. " In 1861," 

 a genfleman informs me, " I did not certainly see more 

 than one-third of the number I had seen three years 

 before. The reason evidently is, that they are over- 

 hunted by the proprietors, whom the ready market 

 afforded by the steam communication with Throndhjem 

 tempts to convert their venison into dollars. It is on 

 this account, also, that there are no good heads on 

 the whole island." 



Red- deer shooting is, moreover, rather expensive 

 work. In the first place, leave must be obtained of 

 the proprietor, who not only expects the quarry, but 

 a payment of three dollars for every deer that may be 

 killed, and one dollar for the guide ; and after all it is 

 but tame work compared with reindeer hunting. In 

 the north-western part of this island a fair sprinkling of 

 black game and capercalzie may be found. Ryper are 

 scarce, though there may be some on the sea side of the 

 island. There is a great deal of marshy ground, where 

 one would naturally imagine snipe to resort in great 

 numbers, but I am not aware that they do come there. 



A friend of mine writes me word that in 1858 he 



