THE FEATHERED GAME OF NORWAY. 169 



same degree as is the case in Scotland. They are 

 extremely plentiful in parts, and are often very tame ; 

 but that they are capable of affording sport I disbelieve. 



A cross between this bird and the skov-rype has 

 never been found in Norway. I can assign no other 

 reason but that they occupy totally different terrains, 

 the ptarmigan never, or rarely, descending into the 

 regions of grouse. 



The PARTEIDGE (Agerhone, or Eaphons) has of late 

 years been on the increase in the south and south- 

 western parts of the country. In the neighbourhood of 

 Christiania a few coveys may occasionally be seen, and- 

 on the islands in the fjord I have frequently seen a fair 

 sprinkling. I do not know how far north they are 

 to be found. An English gentleman who resided at 

 Hamar, on the Miosen, had a covey on his grounds two 

 or three years back. I am not aware that the "red 

 legs" exist in the country. A friend of mine writes 

 me word that when at Fleermoen, a little above lat. 

 61, on the borders. of Sweden, between the Klar and 

 Dal rivers, he found a covey of partridges. " I stopped 

 the night," he writes, " at Fleermoen in a house round 

 which there was a ' clearing,' and, as usual, made in- 

 quiries about the game in the neighbourhood, both 

 large and small. They did not give me a very pro- 

 mising account : but mentioned that a ' pair of birds,' 

 they didn't know what they were, had come over from 



