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THE OLD-WORLD ELK 



out and multiplied again in territory which it had 

 deserted.^ Elk are found in the German province 

 of East Prussia, in all the Baltic provinces of the 

 Russian Empire, and in Finland. They inhabit 

 also in considerable numbers the extensive moun- 

 tainous areas of Scandinavia, the southern bound- 

 ary of their range in Sweden being near the 57th 

 parallel. 



^ Norway, Sweden, and Russia are the hunting 

 grounds for elk in Europe. Few foreigners visit 

 Russia in quest of game, however, while many 

 Englishmen and Germans have been in the habit 

 of leasing hunting privileges in the Scandinavian 

 Peninsula. In the eastern provinces of southern 

 Norway, especially the district of Drontheim, the 

 great forests of deciduous trees, abounding in 

 mountain ash, harbor many elk, and the number 

 is believed to be increasing, thanks to protective 

 legislation.^ 



"It is an undoubted fact," wrote the late Sir 

 Henry Pottinger, "'that in the last fifty years — 

 in Norway, at least — their number has greatly 



' Die Verhreitung des Elentiers im Europdischen Russland, published 

 by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1883. Con- 

 cerning the limits of the elk's range in European and Asiatic Russia the 

 present writer has accepted in general the statements of Martenson ia 

 Der Elch (Riga, 1903), pp. 89-101. 



^ 3 Hesketh Prichard in Blackwood's Magazine, July, 1906. 



