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beavers have been found in some parts of Lapland some 

 of these have been found white in colour, but the instances 

 are rare. 



A representative of the Felidae is the lynx. The 

 lynx is occasionally shot in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. 

 The species most generally found is the felis vergata of 

 Nilssen. He is a very wary animal, and even when 

 ringed is very difficult to drive from his lurking place. 



The Ganidae are represented by the wolf and the 

 fox. 



In Lapland the foxes are extremely numerous, some of 

 them are white with black ears and feet, some red, or red 

 with a black cross, some black, or black with long hairs on 

 their back of a silver colour: the skins of these are 

 highly valued in the north of Europe. 



The Arctic fox (lagopus, or isatis canislagopus), is a dog- 

 like animal, considered native to Spitzbergen and Green- 

 land, but it extends over all the Arctic regions of America 

 and Asia, and it has been found in Finland and Northern 

 Russia. 



The wolf ( Volk) is both abundant and widely diffused. 

 Wolves are shot by hunting them with dogs or by an 

 ordinary battue, such as has been described in connection 

 with the hunting of the bear, and sometimes by riding 

 them down, but this requires a peculiar condition of the 

 snow and appropriate ground. 



In hunting the wolf it is not uncommon for the sports- 

 man to take with him in his sledge a young squeaking pig 

 in a bag ; and a bag of hay of like size is attached to the 

 sledge to be trailed behind. From time to time the pig is 

 pinched its squeaking attracts wolves they, seeing the 

 bag of hay trailed behind, supposing the sound to proceed 

 from it, come out to reconnoitre, and thus present them- 

 selves within reach of the sportsman's rifle. 



The wolves also have their little stratagems. A member 

 of my family, resident for some time in the locality, told 

 me that he had himself seen indications of the following 

 trik, 'which is not uncommon with them. A herd ef 



