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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 71.] 1917 [November. 



WILD LIFE IN A WEST HIGHLAND 

 DEER FOREST 



By William Eagle Clarke, LL.D. 



AMONG the more promising haunts for the observation of 

 wild life in the British Isles, the Highland Deer Forest must 

 be awarded a foremost place. It is true that animal life in a 

 Deer Forest is very far from being abundant, for within its 

 limits are miles and miles of desolation suited only to the 

 requirements and mode of life of a few special species. Herein 

 lies the main charm the Deer Forest affords for the naturalist, 

 for these characteristic inhabitants in feather and fur are not 

 to be observed elsewhere, and include some of the most 

 attractive and distinctive members of our fauna among 

 them the remnants of the few existing forms which possess 

 a romantic interest. In addition, the very wildness of the 

 haunts of these Forest animals adds not a little to the 

 zest of their observance. 



Botanists will, no doubt rightly, claim that its endemic 

 flora is equally interesting. In particular, the Deer Forest 

 offers to botanists, as to zoologists, a field for the investiga- 

 tion of several interesting problems associated with plant 

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