1860.] Note on {he Haces of Bein Deer. 377 



It would appear that the wild Eein Deer of arctic and sub-arctic 

 Scandinavia still exists in very considerable numbers. Thus Lloyd, 

 quoting Prof. Nilsson, states that — " On the high fjálls in the vicinity 

 of Eoldahl and Woxlie, the Eein Deer collect at times in astonishing 

 nnmbers. One day in the beginning of June, 1826 (a couple of 

 months before my visit to this district), the fjáll, for the breadth of 

 a Norwegian mile — which is a trifle more than seven English miles 

 — was as thickly covered with Eein Deer as the ground is where 

 Sheep feed in a flock. * * # The herd extended such a distance, 

 that the eye could not embrace the whole at once. Subsequently 

 the Deer separated into three divisions. * * * This reminds 

 one as well of the interminable herds of Antelopes in the deserts of 

 África, as of the equally large herds of Bisons in the prairies of 

 America. # * * That this account is literally true, the Professor 

 adds, is the more certain, because it was given him at different places 

 and by different persons, who all agreed in their relations. The 

 phenomenon excited a great deal of interest — no person having pre- 

 viously seen so large a number of Eein Deer collected in one and 

 the same place. On the Jemtland and Herjeadalen mountains in 

 Sweden, as well as in the north-eastern portion of Lapland up to the 

 North Cape, [the wild] Eein Deer are also pretty abundant. But 

 in the intermediate conntry, which with some propriety may be called 

 Western Lapland, though formerly numerous, very few, according to 

 Lsestadius, are now to be fonnd. 



" The number of wild Eein Deer killed annually in Scandinavia, 

 by one means or another, is considerable. Very many, to my know- 

 ledge, are shot on the Norwegian mountains by peasants and others ; 

 as also in the more northern part of the peninsula. One of my 

 guides in Eussian Lapland, who was much celebrated as a chasseur, 

 assured me, indeed, that in his time he had destroyed hundreds of 

 those animáis — in one instance as many as nine in a single day. Por 

 the most part he had shot them during the autumn, when they were 

 in the best condition : but many he had also run down on Skidor." 

 There ought, therefore, to be no great diñiculfcy in procuring fine 

 horns of the wild European animal for museums. 



" Of the tame Eein Deer of Lapland," continúes Mr. Lloyd, 

 " there are, so to speak, two kinds : the so-called Fjáll Herí, or moun- 



