NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 191 



Eed Field Yole or Bank Vole, Arvicola glareolus (Schreb.). 



I cannot speak of this species from personal observation, never 

 having identified a specimen with certainty ; but as I am informed 

 by Mr E. R. Alston that the late Dr Dewar obtained it on the 

 shores of Loch Katrine, I think it may be safely included as 

 occurring within the district. 



RODENTIA. LEPORIDAE. 



Common Hare, Leims europaeus. Pall. 

 Very common. 



Mountain Hare, Lepus variaUUs. Pall. 



Common on all the higher hills. Mr John Colquhoun states * 

 that when he was a boy there were no Mountain Hares in the 

 district. The first he ever saw was on Ben Voirla in 1822. 

 Hybrids between this species and L. timidus have been got in the 

 district. 



Eabbit, Lejms cuniculus. Linn. 



Very numerous all round the loch. Fifty or sixty years ago it 

 was quite unknown in the district, and has increased very much 

 in numbers within recent years. 



RUMINANTIA. CERVIDAE. 



Red Deer, Cervus elaphus. Linn. 

 An occasional straggler sometimes ajDpears on the hills. 



Roe Deer, Capreolus cajjrea. Gray. 



Common in all the woods, but not so numerous as at one time. 

 An albino was some years ago taken near Luss. 



Ohs. — Reindeer, Cervus tarandus. Linn. 



Dr J. A. Smith (Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 1871) states that bones 

 of this species have been found underlying boulder-clay at 

 Croftamie, in the Endrick valley. 



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Ferae Naturae of the British Isles," p. 28. 



