Lj L I B R A R Y 



THE FAUNA OF SCOTLAND, 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CLYDESDALE AND 



THE WESTERN DISTRICT. 



MAMMALIA. 



Introduction. 



The following Catalogue of Scottish Mammals has been drawn up 

 at the request of the Council of the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow. In its preparation I have been careful to confine my 

 notes strictly to the department of geographical distribution, and 

 have not entered into any details of description or economy. In the 

 nomenclature I have endeavoured to reconcile the spirit and the 

 letter of the British Association rules, to select the first " clearly 

 defined'' name for each species, and at the same time to avoid 

 all unnecessary changes of well-known and generally accepted names. 

 The numerous scattered memoirs of previous writers have been 

 collated — notably those of Walker, Low, Fleming, Selby and 

 Jardine, the two Macgillivrays, J. Wilson, Baikie and Heddle, 

 &c, ifcc. — and their observations have been compared with my own 

 field notes and with those of many kind friends and correspondents. 

 Amongst those to whom I am indebted for help are Professors A. 

 Leith Adams, W. Boyd Dawkins, W. H. Flower, and A. Newton, 

 the Rev. G. Gordon, Dr. J. Murie, and Messrs. J. M. Campbell, 

 A. Heneage Cocks, J. G. Gordon, R. Gray, J. E. Harting, J. Kirsop, 

 H. Saunders, and J. R. Tudor. More especially are my thanks 

 due to Professor Turner, of Edinburgh, for many valuable notes on 

 the Seals and Cetaceans, and to Dr. John Alexander Smith, of the 

 same city, for corrections and additions to the account of the 

 extinct forms. Also to Mr. Lumsden, of Arden, who obtained for 

 me lists of the species found in Tslay from Mr. M'Kenzie, and of 

 those of Mull from Mr. Cameron; and to Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, 

 of Dunipace, who, besides supplying observations from the Outer 

 Hebrides, and rendering much other kind assistance, has procured in- 

 formation as to the Gaelic names from the Rev. Dr. T. M'Lauchlan, 

 of Edinburgh, from Mr. D. Campbell, of Callander, and from other 

 sources. 



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Fauna of Scot.— Mammalia 1. 



