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Mouse, and on this account when discovered it is more readily 

 captured. Its prehensile tail is a noteworthy feature, and it is of 

 great service to the little animal when descending the corn-stalks. 

 My little captives, when going round in the wheel provided to 

 give them exercise in their cage, invariably made use of their 

 tails to steady themselves upon the slender wire, and lashed it 

 round the wire to bring the wheel to a standstill. The appear- 

 ance presented when the tail is used for grasping is accurately 

 represented in the figure of this animal which accompanied the 

 article on the Weasel (Zool. 1894, p. 454), to which active little 

 mouse -hunter it must often fall a prey. 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



Wild Animals killed in Norway in 1894. — The official list of birds 

 and beasts of prey killed throughout Norway last year (1894), and on 

 which the Government rewards were paid, has been recently published. 

 The details are as follows : — 



Provinces. 



Bears. 



Wolves. 



Lynxes. 



Gluttons. 



Foxes. 



Eagles. 



Hawks. 



Smaalenene . . 

 Akershuus . . . 

 Hedemarken . . 

 Kristian .... 





11 



6 



9 

 3 

 2 



8 

 4 



8 

 3 

 1 

 2 



5 



15 



1 



16 



1 



2 



14 



2 



2 

 2 

 6 



8 

 7 



1 



3 

 1 



4 

 14 

 2 

 4 

 6 

 1 

 10 



332 

 391 

 725 

 628 

 471 

 323 

 413 

 250 

 220 

 214 

 640 

 705 

 385 

 481 

 341 

 703 

 422 

 1002 



2 

 1 



12 



129 



65 



9 



64 



15 



7 



26 



36 



73 



71 



55 



80 



321 



70 



45 



815 

 219 

 460 

 314 



Buskernd . 





324 



Jarlsberg and Larvil 

 Bratsberg . 





366 

 347 



Nedenaes 





258 



Lister and Mandal 

 Stavanger . . . 

 S. Bergenliuus 

 N. Bergenliuus . 

 Romsdal 





83 

 233 

 386 

 203 

 184 



S. Trondhjem . . 

 N. Trondhjem. . 

 Nordland 





374 

 311 

 239 



Tromso .... 





75 



Finmarkfin t ( 





36 







Total 



57 



37 



44 



46 



8646 



1081 



4727 







For the previous j 

 the numbers were 



r ear 



72 



50 



56 



40 



11,400 



969 



4846 





The reward for killing a Bear is 20 kroners, and so also for a Wolf, 

 Lynx, or Glutton ; for a Fox, 4 kroners; for an Eagle, 2 kroners, and the 

 same for Goshawks. 



