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Orcadian seas. It was first described by Gray from an Orkney 

 skull (Spic. Zool., No. 2), which is now in the Museum of Leyden. 

 An adult female from the same locality was described by Knox, 

 under the name of D. tursio {Cat. Prep. Whales, 1838), and its 

 skeleton is now in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. In 

 August 1858 about 20 were captured in Scalpa Bay, as recorded 

 by Dr. Duguid, who states that the species is often seen about the 

 Orkneys (Ann. and Mag. N. H., 3rd ser., xiv., pp. 133-136). It 

 has also been taken off the Faroes, and on the coasts of Norway 

 and of Ireland (Ogilby, Zoologist, 1876, p. 5077). 



[Delphinus delphis, Linnaeus. — The Common Dolphin, although 

 a more southern species than the preceding, probably occasionally 

 visits the coasts of Scotland as it does those of Norway; 

 but I have been unable to find a single trustworthy account of its 

 capture. Oft 1 the south coast of England it appears not to be rare. 



Delphinus albirostris, G ray. —The White-beaked Dolphin is 

 another species whose appearance in Scottish waters is to be ex- 

 pected, as it seems frequently to visit the Faroes and the east coast 

 of England (Cunningham, P. Z. S., 1876, p. 6SQ), but as yet its 

 actual occurrence does not seem to have been recorded.] 



Order V.: ARTIOD AC T YL A. 

 Family: CEBYIDAE. 



38. Cervus elaphus, Linnaeus. 



Red-Deer. 



Gael., Fiadh (general); Damh, Cabrach (lit., the antlered), 

 Croichdeach (stag); Eilid, Mavlag, Maviseach. Adh, Grighagh 

 (hind); Mang (young deer); Laogh (calf). 



Formerly generally distributed over the mainland and Islands 

 (excepting apparently Shetland), the Red-Deer has long been extinct 

 in the Lowlands and in Orkney, where antlers are found in the 

 " Picts' houses " or " Brochs," as well as in the peat. Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown informs me that Red-Deer have also been long extinct in 

 the Outer Hebrides south of Benbecula, although their remains 

 are found in peat as far south as Barra. They are still preserved, 

 however, in North Uist and the Lews, in most of the Inner Islands, 

 and in parts of the mainland counties of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross 

 and Cromarty, Inverness, Banff. Aberdeen, Forfar, Perth, Stirling, 



