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majority of these last, are corruptions of Bjérn (a bear), I have 
not thought it worth while to enumerate them. There are two 
Bjaar Lakes in Norway, in Scetersdal and Nedre Thelemarken 
respectively. In Osterdalen I do not know of the Beeverdal and 
Beever Ely, mentioned in Bowden's ‘ Naturalist in Norway,’ and 
quoted by Mr. Harting (at p. 443); but there is a brook which 
I believe runs into the Slem Aa (mentioned in my former paper 
as having contained Beavers up to about twenty-five years ago), 
called Bjaar Boek, in which I was told there had been Beavers 
within the memory of middle-aged people. There is also a small 
house, about two English miles from Rena, called Bjaarslan, and 
a Bjaar Aa, N.W. from Koppang, running into the Glommen. 
In Sweden there are Bjurholm (west of Umea), Bjurbiikken (south 
of Filipstad), and Bjurholm, the name of a brewer in Stockholm. 
On the island of Hisingen, opposite Géteborg, is a farm called 
Bjurstiill, while the church at the same place is known as Bjorlanda 
Kyrka. 
At the place (S.) last mentioned in my previous communication, 
where I had been told that Beavers probably existed, I found, 
among the flotsam by the river side, a small piece of the branch 
of a tree which had been bitten off at either end, most un- 
mistakably, by a Beaver. The people in this part of the country, 
with hardly an exception, talk only ‘“ Dél,” a dialect somewhat 
akin to old Norse, which made communication very difficult for 
me; and while many: of the people whom I questioned either knew 
little or nothing about Beavers, a few altogether failed to under- 
stand me, and, per contra, I frequently failed to understand them. 
One man, however, proved a brilliant exception, and although 
I could not understand all he said, I at least learned that no 
Beavers existed at that spot; but that a few, probably about 
three or four individuals, existed at a place about ten or eleven 
English miles higher up the river in a straight line, or about 
twenty-five following the bends. This would agree very well with 
the appearance of the piece of wood, which is much water-worn, 
as would be natural after having come down twenty-five miles of 
river, which, at least as far as I traced its course, is a perpetual 
succession of waterfalls and rapids. | 
When in Géteborg, on my way home, I had an opportunity of 
looking up some of the old volumes of the ‘Svenska Jiigerefor- 
bundets Nya Tidskrift,’ and in that for 1868 I found an account 
