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[Family: RHIXOCERONTIDAE.] 



[Rhinoceros, sp. 1 — Horns of a Rhinoceros are stated to have 

 been found in marl-pits in Forfarshire, and in Blair-Drummond 

 Moss (Fleming, New Phil. Joum., xi., p. 297), but it seems probably 

 that the specimens in question were the horn-sheaths of one of 

 the Fossil Oxen (cf. Smith, P. S. Antiq. Scotland, ix., pp. 636-638).] 



Order IV.: ARTIOD ACT YL A. 



Family: SUIDAE. 



5. Sus scrofa, Linnaeus. 



Wild Boar. 



Old Scot., Baar (Aug.-Sax., bar, a boar). 



Gael, Tore, Torc-neimh {lit., fierce boar), Cullach, Fiadh-chullach 

 (lit., wild swine). 



Scottish Wild Boars have not only left their remains in marl-pits 



and peat-bogs (Lyell, Princ. Geol., n., p. 356), but have had their 



memory preserved both in tradition and in history. In Gaelic 



they are mentioned as beasts of chase in the Fionnean fragments 



of poetry, and they play an important part in such mythical legends 



as that of "Diarmid and the Magic Boar" (cf. Campbell, Tales of the 



West Highlands, I., p. xci., in., pp. 36-90, iv., p. 168). When the 



Baron of Avenel granted certain rights in Eskdale to the monks of 



Melrose in the reign of Malcolm IV. (1153-1165) he specially 



reserved the right of hunting the Wild Boar (Morton, Ami. 



Teviotdale, p. 273), but in the next century Boars appear to have 



required special protection, for in 1263 there is an item in the 



accounts of the Sheriff of Forfar for corn for the Porci sylvestris 



(Inues, Scotl. in Middle Ages, p. 123). How much later they 



existed in Scotland, I have been unable to ascertain. 



Family: GERVIDAE. 



6. Alces machlis, Ogilby. 

 Elk. 



Gael, Lon (lit., food, a beast fit for food), Miol (lit., the wild 

 beast). 



The palaeontological evidence that the true Elk was formerly a 

 native of Scotland has been fully discussed in Dr. J. A. Smith's 



