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11 lbs. weight, and one of 12 lbs. Mr. Dewar mentions that the 

 heaviest he has weighed has been 11 lbs. 



25. Mountain Hare. Lepus variabilis, Pall. — Found in great 

 numbers on all the higher hills. Mr. Dewar writes me that 31 

 years ago Mr. Arch. Campbell, private secretary to the late Marquis 

 of Breadalbane, killed 230 white hares with one gun, a muzzle- 

 loader, at one drive, on Remony Hill. Since then, in 1849, as many 

 as 685 white hares have been killed on Remony Hill in a day. In 

 1880, on one occasion, 500 were killed. At Ardeonaig, in 1880, 

 509 were killed by the Earl of Breadalbane and his friends. The 

 average weight of this species is between 6 and 7 lbs., though I have 

 frequently weighed them up to 7£ and 8 lbs. Mr. Dewar says 

 that of all the White Hares he has weighed the heaviest was 

 7£ lbs. 



26. Rabbit. Lepus cuniculus, Lin. — Of late years the Rabbit 

 has increased to an enormous extent in the valleys of the Tay, 

 Tummel, and Garry. This is especially the case at Blair Castle. 

 They were brought to Taymouth in the year 1820 by Mr. John 

 Cameron from Monzie, near Crieff, and holes were made for them 

 near the river, east from Taymouth Castle, as well as on Drummond 

 Hill, and in Blairmore, and Finlarig Woods to the north of Loch 

 Tay. 



II.— FOSSIL AND EXTINCT SPECIES. 



Order I. — Carnivora. 



Family: Canidae. 



1. Wolf. Canis lupus, Lin. — Once common in the wilder parts 

 of Perthshire. In the New Stat. Acct. of Scotland,* the Rev. 

 Robert Macdonald says that the Wolf, Wild Boar, and White Cow 

 formerly inhabited the parish of Fortingal, and that many places in 

 the district take their names from wild animals, as Ruighe-a-mha- 

 daidh, i.e., the haunt of the mastiff or wolf. In the Proceedings of 

 the Society of Antiquaries,! the Rev. Mr. Porteous says that two 

 Wolves, the last seen in Scotland, were chased from the wood of 

 Trowan, and followed into the highlands where they were killed. 

 Wolves were included in the game lists of the great hunting parties 

 at which the successive Earls of Athole entertained James V. in 



* Perthshire, p. 542. 

 + Vol. 2. part i., and New Stat. Acct., Perthshire, p. 731. 



