THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vot. IV.) DECEMBER, 1880. [No. 48. 
THE BEAVER IN NORWAY.# 
By Atrrep Heneace Cocks, F.Z.S. 
Waite in Norway again this summer, I took the opportunity 
of making further enquiries in the neighbourhood of both the 
places mentioned in my former communication on the subject 
(p. 233 et seq.), where I had been told that Beavers existed. 
I regret that, being engaged for Elk-hunting by a fixed date in 
a widely different part of Norway, I was only able to make what 
Americans would call “a rush” through the country, and can 
merely, therefore, repeat statements made to me, having been 
unable to linger and verify them for myself; but as I only give 
such as I believe to be reliable, I hope that, considering the 
interest of the subject, they may not be considered altogether 
valueless, though second-hand statements are naturally received 
with caution. 
In addition to the two names taken from this animal noticed at 
p. 234, I have since found that Bjaar (or Bjor, as it is also spelt 
in more modern fashion) is old Norse, and also perhaps “ Dol” 
(the name for a dialect or patois spoken up the country), for 
Beaver. In Swedish it becomes Bjur;+ and there are several 
names of places in both countries in which this word occurs, as 
well as several beginning Bjér, but as some, and probably the 
* Continued from p. 236, 
¢ Lilljeborg, p. 346, foot-note. In the ‘Svenska. Jagts. Nya Tidskrift,’ 1865, 
p. 150, is “ Beavers, or, in the language of the common people, Bjurar.” 
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