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 Order II.: PROBOSCIDEA. 



Family: ELEPHANTIDAE. 

 3. Elephas primigenius, Blumenbach. 



Fossil Elephant or Mammoth. 



Remains of the Mammoth have been found in Scotland, both 

 under and in the boulder-clay, the Rein-Deer being the only other 

 Scottish Mammal whose bones have yet been found in deposits of 

 such antiquity. A tusk was found between Edinburgh and Falkirk, 

 and bones near Kilmaurs (Bald., Mem. Wern. Soc, IV., pp. 58-64), 

 near Airdrie (Craig, P. Geol. S. Glasg., in., p. 415), and at Clifton- 

 hall (Cat. Western Scott. Fossils, p. 152), and a molar tooth, now in 

 the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow, near Bishop- 

 briggs (Bryce, Geol. Arran and Clydesd.). Besides these, Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins informs me that there are remains from 

 Caithness-shire in the Kelvingrove Museum at Glasgow, and Mr. 

 J. Kirsop tells me that he has a well preserved molar found at 

 Baillieston, near Glasgow. 



Order III.: PERISSOD ACT YL A. 



Family: E QUI DAE. 

 4. Equus caballus, Linnaeus. 



Fossil Horse. 



Bones of a small Horse, not distinguishable from the recent 



species, have been found in marl in Forfarshire (LyeV, Princ. Geol. 



ii., p. 336), and in peat in Renfrewshire (Craig, Tr. Geol S. Glasg., 



iv., p. 18). The latter specimeus are preserved in the Hunterian 



Museum of the University of Glasgow. There is no reason to 



believe that the Horse survived in Scotland in a reallv wild state 



iii historical times, although Boethius mentions Equi feri in the 



sixteenth century (Reg. So. Descr., fol. ix.), and John Taylor, in his 



"Pennyles Pilgrimage," speaks of having seen "wild horses" in 



Braemar in 1618, for in both cases ordinary hill-ponies are probably 



meant. 



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Fauna of Scot. -Mammalia 3. 



