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same latitude, and from there as far south as the seventieth 

 parallel. On the east coast of Greenland the range of the Musk- 

 ox in a line drawn over the map from north to south embraces at 

 least seven hundred geographical miles. 



THE BEAVEE IN NORWAY.* 

 By A. J. Olsen, Inspector of Schools. 



On July 14th, 1892, I looked into the laboratory of the 

 Museum to take leave of the taxidermist and to give him some 

 instructions, as I was about to start on a mountain excursion. 

 Lying on his table was an entire Beaver, very big and exceedingly 

 fat. In reply to my question where it came from he handed me a 

 telegram from the bailiff Kolbenstvedt, to the effect that the animal 

 in question had been confiscated by him as having been killed in 

 Suldal during the close-season. As luck would have it, my journey 

 lay through Suldal, and would thus afford me an opportunity of 

 determining whether the species could be included in the Fauna 

 of the Stavanger Amt — as actually born and bred at Suldal in the 

 circle of its family — or whether it only belonged to the category of 

 those rari nantes from Telemarken that may have strayed across 

 the mountains to Suldal. For I had not previously heard of the 

 Beaver in this Amt. 



The captain of a Suldal steamer, Mr. Kolbenstvedt, promised 

 to collect for me all possible information on this point during 

 my absence, and on my return he communicated to me the 

 following : — 



" In the beginning of this century there was a Beaver colony 

 near the farm Sandvig, on the south side of the Suldal lake. The 

 colony emigrated from here in the thirties, but was discovered 

 later on the Forlands islands in the Suldal river. These flat 

 islands, covered with abundant deciduous timber, and situated 

 in the middle of the stream (which here, in point of breadth, 

 compares favourably with the biggest rivers of the east country -<-■ 

 e.g., the Glommen), must have afforded an admirable retreat for 



* Translated from the ' Stavanger Museums Aars-beretning ' (Stavanger, 

 1893), and communicated by Mr. G. N. Douglass. 



