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and killed the whole trio with four shots from his tiny 
repeater. 
Here is a list of the noxious animals on which the 
Government reward was paid, killed in 'Norway during 
the last four years 
Species. 
Premium. 
1892. 
1893. 
1894. 
1895. 
Bears 
20 kroner 
... 68 
72 
57 
44 
Wolves 
20 
99 
72 
50 
37 
61 
Lynx 
20 
99 
69 
56 
44 
80 
Glutton 
20 
37 
40 
46 
50 
Foxes 
4 
59 
... 10,758 
11,400 
8646 
10,362 
Eagles 
2 
99 
828 
969 
1081 
854 
Goshawks, etc. 
2 
99 
... 3954 
4846 
4727 
4486. 
Red Deer. —Confined almost exclusively to certain 
islands (which are strictly preserved), and to limited areas 
of the adjacent mainland. The number shot in 1893 
was returned as a hundred and forty-three head, eighty- 
four in the following year, and a hundred and forty-six 
in 1895. I have had no experience of red deer in 
Norway ; but the following incident is worth relating. 
In 1894 a lease of the deer-rights on Otero, a large 
island in the Namsos-fjord, and, I believe, the northern¬ 
most habitat of red deer in Europe, was offered me under 
these circumstances. For many years, owing, we are 
told, to long-continued in-breeding, all the calves born 
had been females, and the stock was threatened with 
extermination. Only three or four good stags remained, 
with seventy or eighty hinds. A lease was offered, free 
of cost, for a long term of years, provided I imported 
the needed stags from Scotland or Austria ! The 
business had no charms for me, but I afterwards heard 
it was accepted by a German sportsman. 
While on the subject of statistics, I will here add the 
