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separate Report, with which, however, rny Annual Report to this 

 Society will be continuous, and closely related.* 



MAMMALS. 



RED DEER, ROE DEER, FALLOW DEER. 



One correspondent writes me : — " In the severity of the past 

 winter a great number of young Deer succumbed, aAd in some 

 places full-grown stags and hinds. At the present time they are 

 extremely lean [May, 1879]. As an instance of what cold and 

 hunger reduced some of them to last winter, I may mention that a 

 neighbouring shepherd, one night, as he went to feed his cows 

 before retiring to rest, found a hind lying down against his byre 

 door, but on seeing him she got up and went off. On rising next 

 morning the first thing he did was to go to the byre, which was 

 under the same roof as his own dwelling, to feed his cattle, and, to 

 his astonishment, he found a two-year-old hind lying, stiff and stark, 

 dead against the door." This was in Ross-shire. 



I have several other reports of Red Deer having succumbed to 

 the severity of the storm in Harris, Sutherland, and other localities, 

 but the mortality arising directly from this as regards Red Deer 

 has not been great. With Roe Deer it is different. Many Roe 

 died even in comparatively well-sheltered situations, as at Loch 

 Inver, in Sutherland ; and the Fallow Deer at Rosehall suffered 

 considerably. 



The Deer in the various forests were reduced to skin and bone 

 by the end of May or earlier, and it was with difficulty they were 

 driven away from the farm-yards. In Mar, Invercauld, Balmoral, 

 and other forests they w^ere fed regularly [Journal of Forestry, 



* Our first Report has been published since the above was written, and 

 arrangements for further extension of our observations have been made, and 

 additional stations secured, against our second report in 1880. [See "Report 

 on the Migration of Birds in the Autumn of 1879," by John Cordeaux aud 

 John A. Harvie-Brown— Zoologist, 1880, May, pp. 161-204.] 



A second " Report on Scottish Ornithology," also, forming a continuation 

 of the present paper — for 1879-80 — was read to this Society on 30th March, 

 1880. 



