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Besides these ancient herds, attempts have at various times been 

 made to establish White Cattle in other parks, as at Taymouth, 

 Dalkeith, Ardrossan, and Kilmoiy, but, according to Mr. Storer, 

 they now only survive at the last-named place, and are considered 

 to be in a semi-domesticated state.] 



Order VI.: GLIRES. 

 SCIURTDAE. 



40. Sciurus vulgaris, Linnaeus. 



Squirrel. 



Old Scot., Conn (Sir D. Lindsay); (Sw., ikorn, ehorre, a squirrel). 



Gael., Fheorag (lit., the alert). 



The history of the distribution of the Squirrel in Scotland is 

 similar to that of the Roe-Deer, and is being fully worked out by 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown, so that a mere sketch will be here sufficient. 

 In the middle ages it appears to have been widely spread, being 

 found in 1630 even in Sutherlandshire (Sir R. Gordon), but, 

 owing doubtless to the same causes which banished the Roe-Deer, it 

 became very rare, if not extinct. Subsequently it was re-introduced 

 by several landowners in the last and present centuries, and from 

 these centres it has gradually spread once more over the mainland, 

 reaching Sutherlandshire about 1869 (Alston and Harvie-Brown, 

 P. N. II S. Glasg., u., p. 1-44), and South Ayrshire, where it was 

 long absent, in 1877. It is not found in any of the Scottish Islands. 



[Myoxidae.] 



[Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus). — The Dormouse is in- 

 cluded in "Walker's " Mammalia Scotica" (Essays Nat. Hist., p. 499), 

 but without any special locality, and is stated by Fleming to be 

 "rare in Scotland" {Brit. An., p. 22). It was "reported" to 

 Macgillivray " to occur near Gifford, in East Lothian" (Nat. Libr., 

 xxii., p. 236), and is included in a list of the animals of Careston, 

 in Forfarshire (New Stat. Ace. For/., p. 523), but I have been 

 quite unsuccessful in seeking for any confirmation of these vague 

 statements.] 



