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inflicting terrible wounds. Young lynxes will generally 

 run up a tree when hotly pursued; and, I ani told, 

 that by taking off one's hat and placing it on a stick 

 near the foot of the tree, they will remain there till it 

 becomes quite dark. By far the greater number of 

 these animals are trapped ; for accounts of which the 

 reader is referred to Mr. Lloyd's " Scandinavian Ad- 

 ventures." 



I was struck one day on perceiving among the 

 official returns of birds and beasts of prey slaughtered 

 annually in Norway, the eagles figuring so largely. 



For the fifteen years from 1846 to 1860, the mar- 

 vellous quantity of 48,453 eagles are stated to have 

 been killed, giving an average of about 3,230 per 

 annum ; and as government gives a premium of half a 

 dollar for every eagle, no less sum than 24,226^ dollars, 

 or about 5,384, has been disbursed for eagles alone 

 during that period. The law stands as follows : 

 " That every sea-eagle, eagle, whether young or old, 

 shall be paid with half a dollar, and every mountain- 

 owl or kestrel with one mark." But in order to insure 

 that the mousing hawks should not be included, it was 

 determined that only those hawks which were not shot 

 should obtain the premium ; for it is an established 

 fact that nine-tenths of the preying hawks are caught 

 in nets. But to a Lensmand (a civil officer, a sort of 

 bailiff ) not skilled in natural history, it is not difficult 



