280 BIRD LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



The destruction of elk, however, is here again prohibited, 

 without the royal sanction. 



On disputed lands, which are still under litigation, neither 

 of the contending parties is allowed to pursue game, although 

 vermin and noxious animals may be killed. 



All game wounded by the owner, or persons authorized 

 by him, on his own property, may be pursued and taken 

 upon a neighbouring property; and should the animal so 

 hunted be a bear, wolf, lynx, or glutton, the above provision 

 holds good, although it be not previously wounded. 



Any person who has surrounded and marked down a bear 

 in its den during winter shall enjoy the sole right of pursuing 

 and killing it ; and no one, not even the owner of the land, 

 shall be entitled to disturb the beast, or to prevent the chase. 



Should any person undertake to destroy any of the above- 

 mentioned wild animals in any other manner on land not 

 his own, but where they are known to exist, he must give 

 notice of his intention to the landlord, who is. entitled to 

 participate in the hunt ; but in no case can he prevent its 

 taking place, the notifier appropriating the animal, and any 

 one, no matter who, meeting with beasts of prey on any 

 land whatever is entitled to kill and keep them. 



The following are considered, according to Swedish law, 

 to be vermin and beasts of prey : bears, wolves, lynxes, 

 gluttons, foxes, martens, otters, seals, eagles, eagle owls, 

 hawks, and falcons. 



Certain rewards are to be paid from the public treasury 

 for the destruction of beasts of prey : fifty dollars (nearly 

 3) for a bear ; twenty-five dollars for a wolf or lynx ; arid 

 ten dollars for a glutton ; the destruction of the young of 

 these animals receiving the same recompense. 



The legal seasons for killing game are as follows : 



Elk may be killed from 10th of August to 1st of October. 



Beaver from 10th of July to 1st of November. 



Partridge and grouse from 1st of September to 1st of 

 November. 



