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t M. decumanus, Pall. Brown Eat. Probably our commonest species, find- 

 ing a living on even the smaller islands, e.g. Glunimore, Kintyre. 



Microtus agrestis, (L.) Com. Field-Vole, c. ; also in islands. 



M. glareolus, (Schreber.} Bank- Vole. Little known ; Lesmahagow, 1866 ; 

 Paisley, 1891 ; Luss (recent). Guide to Nat. Hist, of Loch Lomond,I895,p. 17. 



M. amph.ibi.US, (Z.) Water- Vole, c. ; both brown and black vars. On islands 

 L. Lomond. 



Fam. Leporidae. 



Lepus europoeus, Pall. Com. Hare. Fairly c. ; also in Bute and G. 



Cumbrae ; introduced into Arran ; decreasing generally. 

 L. timidus, L. Mountain Hare. On the hills in every country in the area, 



and c. in many places ; 300 killed in one season on Misty Law Hills, 

 . Renfrewshire, 

 t L. cuniculus, L. Rabbit. Shares with Brown Rat in being our commonest 



species ; on the smaller islands also, e.g. Lady Island (Troon), and Sheep 



Island (Kintyre). Not on Sanda. 



ORDER UXGULATA. 



Fam. Bovidae. 



t ? Bos taurus, L. White or Park-Cattle. Semi-domesticated ; the care- 

 fully preserved herd at Cadzow, now numbering about 50 head, is the 

 sole representative of this species in Scotland. 



* B. primigenius, Bojanus. Fossil Ox or Urus. Doubtfully historical ; 

 remains found in Glasgow ; Partick ; Jordanhill ; Carluke ; Paisley ; 

 Neilston ; Rothesay Bay ; Ardeer and Maybole within recent years. 



*B. longifrons, Owen. Celtic Shorthorn. Remains found in Glasgow ; 

 Gorbals ; Pollokshaws ; Dunibuck, Dumbartonshire ; Cleaves Cove ; 

 Ardrossan Shell-mound, Lochlee ; Crannog, and Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, 

 within recent years. 



Fam. Cervidae. 



Cervus elaphus, L. Red Deer. Maintained in some of the Highland parts 



of our area and in Arran, where fresh blood has been introduced. 

 t C. dama, L. Fallow Deer. Semi-domesticated ; herds in many parks, 



sometimes running wild. 

 Capreolus caprea, Gray. Roe Deer. Not unc. in woodlands ; in Bute ; 



extinct in Arran. 

 *Rangifer tarandus, (L.} Reindeer. Doubtfully historical ; remains found, 



Glasgow, Partick, Carluke, Drymen, Kilmaurs, and Lochlee Crannog. 



Fam. Suidae. 



*Sus scrofa, L. Wild Boar. Remains found Dumbuck Crannog, Dum- 

 bartonshire. 



ORDER CETACEA. 



The want of authentic records for this order in indicated by what follows, 

 but reports of " whales" in Clyde waters are frequent. " Balaena mysticetus, 

 the Greenland Whale," and " Physeter microps, the Bluntheaded Whale" are 

 named for the Clyde in the new Statistical Account of Scot. (1845), vol. vii., 

 but these are not included in this list. 



Fam. Balaenidae. 



[Balaenoptera musculus, L. Com. Rorqual or Fin-Whale. Reported from 

 Loch Fyne and Kilbrannan Sd., by Walker, (1808), and new Stat. Acct., 

 (1845) ; no capture known. 



Remains from Tertiary deposits, Irvine Water, where they have 

 been found from 1790 onwards are thought bv Sir Wm. Turner ta 



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belong to a Balaenoptera, but the species is not named.] 



