192 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



to palm off the young of the larger hawk tribes as 

 eaglets. 



Accordingly, Professor Easch computes that out of 

 the 64,129 praemia that have been paid for birds of 

 prey during the fifteen years, 50,000 have been disr 

 bursed wrongly ; and what is still worse, that the 

 greater part of the alleged eagles have belonged to the 

 useful kinds of mousing hawks. And he considers, 

 therefore, that the law has not only been injurious to 

 Norway, but also to Europe in general, and adds, in 

 the report he has drawn up, "As all these birds are 

 migratory, it is almost certain that the immense quan- 

 tities which have been slaughtered here have been the 

 main cause of the numerous complaints that have been 

 made in parts of Germany at the diminution of the 

 mousing hawks." 



In Norway, as in other countries, the eagle and sea- 

 eagle are not common birds. 



