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included six bears, three wolves, three lynxes, one 

 fox, and twelve elk, besides many hares and birds." 



Edward VII., as Prince of Wales, visited Sweden 

 in 1885, and was entertained by a gigantic elk 

 drive. Preparations were begun weeks before- 

 hand, many hundred beaters being employed in 

 sweeping with a gigantic cordon, which was 

 never relaxed by day or night, an enormous extent 

 of forest, and moving the elk gradually to the 

 stations of the guns." In a single day forty-nine 

 elk were killed. Three years later, in the same 

 forest (at the southern extremity of Lake Wenern), 

 sixty-six elk were killed in three drives on a single 

 day.'^ Some excuse for this slaughter was found 

 in the fact that the elk had been damaging the 

 young Scotch firs in the forest. 



Calling as a means of hunting elk is practiced 

 to some extent in southwestern Russia, but the 

 caller imitates the short grunt of the bull. Indeed, 

 some Russian writers deny that the cow elk is 

 ever heard to make a vocal sound in the season of 

 the rut. 



It is usual, according to Kapherr, for some 

 forest official to make a thorough inspection of the 



Lloyd, Scandinavian Adventures (London, 1854), vol. i., p. 308. 

 *'Pottinger, in Big Game Shooting, vol. ii., p. 136. 



