THE BEAVER IN NORWAY. 501 
miles lower down the river in which the colony first mentioned 
in my former communication is situated), two dead Beavers, 
which he supposed had been killed by the timber floating down 
- the stream; one had a wound on its breast. One of his men had 
also found a dead Beaver a little higher up the river a short time 
before. This high death-rate not being looked upon as anything 
exceptional, it is not difficult to understand why Beavers do not 
get up in numbers, even with the law doing its best to protect 
them. Herr Kk promised to look for the remains of these 
Beavers, and to speak to his men, and, if any of them can be 
found, to send them to me for the sake of the skeleton, and also 
to send me any he finds dead for the future. He said that when 
the game laws were made, Beavers were supposed to be extinct, 
but that since that time they were certainly increasing. This 
opinion helps to reconcile my statements with those of the writer 
in the ‘Svenska Jigereforbundets Nya Tidskrift,’ quoted above, 
apropos of § , and that of Bowden, quoted by the Editor in 
the October number of ‘The Zoologist,’ and with Lilljeborg’s. 
Another gentleman occasionally finds a dead Beaver by the side 
of the river coming from T , and he also has promised to send 
me any such carcase in future. 
To sum up, even allowing that there may be a few more in 
the wild country beyond S —~, and even perhaps a few in one or 
two other localities where I was told there were some on what 
I considered doubtful evidence, I do not think I am so rash as 
might at first sight seem in hazarding the opinion that there are 
not sixty adult Beavers in the whole of Norway. Of Sweden 
-I know very little, and I have only heard of two districts where 
it appears probable that Beavers exist. 
My last sentence on p. 236 is not quite correct, the Beaver 
being only represented in the Trondhjem Museum by three or 
four broken pieces of jaw and the skin of a tail, and I was 
unable to ascertain whether they are European specimens or 
not; in Stockholm the three stuffed specimens are from Sweden 
and Germany; and Géteborg Museum is without a European 
specimen. 
