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1528, and Queen Mary in 1563, and there is abundant proof of 

 their existence in the following century.* 



Family : Ursidae. 



2. Brown Bear. Ursus ardos, Lin. — Mr. Harting, in his 

 "Extinct British Animals/'f remarks that, in so far as history 

 informs us, the Caledonian Forest was the chief stronghold of our 

 British Bears, and quotes Bishop Leslie j to the same effect, as well 

 as Camden, who, writing of Perthshire, observes, "This Athole is 



•a country fruitful enough, having woody valleys, where once the 

 Caledonian Forest (dreadful for its dark intricate windings, and for 

 its dens of bears, and its huge, wild, thick-maned bulls) extended 

 itself far and near in these parts." 



Order IV. — Artiodactyla. 

 Family: Suidae. 



3. Wild Boar. Sus scrofa, Lin. — Up to the middle of the 

 13th century the Wild Boar was one of the favourite beasts of the 

 chase in Scotland, and its popularity is attested by its name being 

 preserved in many names of places in the Highlands. In the parish 

 of Fortingal, the Rev. Robert Macdonald mentions Tom-an-tuirc, 

 i.e., the knoll of the Boar.§ In the " Old Statistical Account," two 

 places are mentioned in Perthshire on the west side of Ben-y-gloe, 

 Carn-torey, and Corrie-torey, — i.e., the hill and hollow of the 

 Boars ; while in the same country is Loch-an-tuirc — i.e., the Boar 

 Loch. || Mr. Alston, in his valuable paper on the Mammalia of 

 Scotland, published by this Society in its Fauna of Scotland, says 

 that he has been unable to ascertain how much later than the 

 year 1263 Wild Boars existed in Scotland. H 



Family : Cervidae. 

 Obs. — Elk. Alces machlis, Ogilby. — In dredging Ochtertyre 

 Loch for marl, very large stags-horns have frequently been found, 

 and they have been supposed to be those of the Elk.** 



* Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glas., vol. iv., part i., p. 32. t P. 20-21. 



$ De Origine, Moribus, etc., Scotorura," 1578. 



§ New Stat. Acct., Perthshire, p. 342. 



|| Old Stat. Acct. Scot., vol. ii, p. 478. 



U Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glas., vol. iv. part i., p. 34. 



# * New Stat. Acct., Perthshire, p. 731. 



