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Show 146 MR. II. J. ELWES ON [Feb. 3, Name of Amt. Buskerud................... Jarlsberg og Larvik Bratsberg................... Nedenes ................... Lister og Mandal ., Sondre Trondhjems Nordre Trondhjems Nordland................... Stavanger ............... Sondre Bergenhus .. Nordre Bergenhus .. Romsdal ................... Finmarken ............. of Bulls. No. of Cows. Total. 69 73 142 9 8 17 54 48 102 3 7 10 1 - 1 50 50 100 212 194 406 9 4 13 - - - 646 606 1252 Average for the 5 years, 1889-93. 610 512*6 1122-6 To give a better idea of the numbers of Elk found in what was perhaps, at that time, the best forest in Norway, I give the following statement copied from my diary in 1895. The number actually seen may possibly represent from | to ^ of the number actually on the ground at the time :- Cows & Bulls, yearlings. Calves. Sept. 2. Haende ........ ... 1 ... Barren cow shot for meat. 3. Storen ....... ... 1 1 4. Strommen... ... 1 1 5. Strommen... 1 11 ... 1 bull killed: 18 points. 6. Blank day. 8. M o ................ 1 1 1 9. M o ............................. 1 10. Oplo ........... ... 1 1 11. Synnaes....... ... 1 12. Lia................ I l l 1 13. Lia........... . 11 ... ... 1 bull killed: 16 points* 15. Blank day. 16. M o ................ 1 1 1 17. Storengen................ 11 18. Storengen ... 1 1 1 19. Fos ........... ... 1 1 20. M o ................ ... 11 1 21. To Storvand, blank day. 22. Vennevik ... 1 11 1 1 bull killed: 6 points. 23. Synnaes....... 11 1 1 1 11 24. Brotten....... 11 ... ... 1 bull killed: 14 points. 25. Synnaes ....... I l l 1 bull killed: 13 points. 26. Quisten....... 1 ... ... 1 bull killed: 11 points. 27. Oplo ........................ 1 1 29. M o .................. 1 1 1 1 bull killed: 18 points. Total....... 17 25 14 This number of Elk was found on about 12 farms out of 24 over which I had the right of hunting. These farms might average 10,000 acres more or less in extent. On the same ground as this Col. Walker kept the following record of the Elk which he saw himself during the four seasons 1887-1890, between Sept. 1st and Oct. 10th. It tends to show |