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VIII. SHOOTING AND FISHING OF SWEDBN.
Taking a survey of the occurrence of useful game in the country,
one finds that the elk occurs more or less numerously in most of the
provinces from the North of Skåne up to Norrbotten and seems to be
inclined to spread even to the territories where at present he has not &
fixed resort. Among the other cervidæ, the wild reindeer, formerly
numerous in the mountain districts, has about entirely disappeared
from the fauna of the country. The stag only occurs within a
very restricted region in the South of Skåne. The fallow-deer is
preferably kept within
fenced deer-parks, among
which may be mentioned
the royal park at
Grips-holm, and on some large
estates in Skåne, although
exceptionally it occurs in
wild state in some parts
of last mentioned
provinces; the roe is rather
numerous in the southern
parts of the country and
shows a disposition to
extend northward. Among
other mammals, the hin
is the game which is the
most general object of
hunting. In a large
portion of the country it is
hunted by help of harriers,
and this manner of hunting
should doubtless be
regarded as the most
national and the most typical
for the country.
Among the rasores,
the wood-grouse, the
blackcock, the hasel-grom,
the ptarmigan, and the
partridge are those most pursued by the sportsman. They occur, according
to the nature of the ground more or less numerously, the woodgrouse and
the hazel-grouse preferably in the backwoods, the black-cock in forest as
well as pasture-grounds, and on the heath, the ptarmigan only in the
mountain districts, and the partridge on cultivated plains. Among
wading birds, the wood-cock is highly estimated as game. She breeds
in most provinces where damp woodland is to be found, but is
decreasing in number, in spite of the fact that Sweden is one of the
Wood-grouse. Painting by Bbuno Liljefors.
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