. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . WIDTSKiiFr^E. In the province of Scania I have likewise seen somecapital Snipe-bogs. The best, 2:)erhaps, arc those neartlie baronial mansion of Widtskofle, depicted above, whereI was hospitably entertained, during the past autumn,by its owner, M. Stjernsviird ; but the Snipes Averethen for the most part gone, so that I did little IN IRELAND. 211 Some years ago, however, a party from thence bagged;between breakfast and dinner, fifty-seven conple of theSoli
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . WIDTSKiiFr^E. In the province of Scania I have likewise seen somecapital Snipe-bogs. The best, 2:)erhaps, arc those neartlie baronial mansion of Widtskofle, depicted above, whereI was hospitably entertained, during the past autumn,by its owner, M. Stjernsviird ; but the Snipes Averethen for the most part gone, so that I did little IN IRELAND. 211 Some years ago, however, a party from thence bagged;between breakfast and dinner, fifty-seven conple of theSolitary and Common Snipe; and in 1850 von Qvanten and the Count Alfred Piper — so Iwas told by the latter—shot in one day about the likenumber; and of these also a considerable portion wereSolitary Snipes. Good Snipe-grounds in Scandinavia being somethinglike legion, it is impossible for me to enumerate all accounts the best are in the island of Gotland,where birds ai-e very plentiful and the bogs boundless;but never having been there myself, I can, of course,only speak from hearsay, which is certainly good forvery little. After all, however, what is the Snipe-shooting in■ Scandinavia, as compared with that in our own fens, andin Ireland, where, during a j)ortio)i of the winter 1821-2,I bagged to my own gun, independently of 207 coupleof Woodcocks, and some other things, 655 couple ofSnipe. With very few exceptions, these were all CommonS
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