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reported to Mr. Harvie-Brown by the late Capt. M 'Donald of 

 Rodil, and by Mr. Henderson, Loch Boisdale; and in 1879 Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown captured a specimen, now in the British Museum, 

 at Newton, North Uist. Occasionally appears in vastly increased 

 numbers, and is then extremely destructive. This took place to a 

 great extent in the south-eastern counties in the spring and summer 

 of 1876. 



47. Arvicola glareolus (Schreber). 



Red Field- Vole, Bank-Yole. 



First noticed in Scotland by W. Macgillivray {Nat. Libr., xxn., 

 p. 257), and appears to be widely but locally distributed. It has 

 not yet been recorded, however, from further north than Moray- 

 shire, where the Rev. G. Gordon informs me that it is extremely 

 common, nor from any of the Islands. 



48. Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus). 



Water- Vole or Water-Rat. 



Gael., Radan-uisge (lit., water-rat). 



Very generally distributed on the mainland, and is found, 

 though apparently not plentifully, in Orkney (Hist. Nat. Ore, 

 Addenda). I have no satisfactory evidence of its existence in 

 the Inner Islands, though it is said to be found in Islay and Mull, 

 and it is certainly absent from the Outer Hebrides. The black 

 variety, which W. Macgillivray described as distinct under the name 

 of Arvicola ater (Mem. Wem. S., vi., p. 424), is local rather than 

 rare, and has been met with in Sutherland (Alston and Harvie- 

 Brown, P. N. H. S. Glasg., n., p. 145), Banff", Aberdeen 

 (Macgillivray, loc. cit.), Midlothian, Stirling, Dumbarton, and 

 Lanarkshire. 



Family; LEPORIDAE. 



49. Lepus eiropaeus, Pallas. 



Common Hare. 



Scot., Maukin, Bawd (Aberdeensh., also Old English. These 

 names appear to be forms of malkin and baivdrons, old English and 

 Scottish names for the Cat, and to have been transferred to the Hare, 

 just as the name puss often is in popular language). 



Gael., Gearr (lit., short-tailed), Maidheach (from Gael., magh, a 

 plain), Miol baidhe (lit., yellow-beast.) 



