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coast. It is included in the lists of mammals in most of the 

 parishes of Buchan, contained in the Old and New Statistical 

 Accounts of Scotland. Mr. Duncan tells me that he often used to 

 kill them, but not for the last fifteen or twenty years, say not since 

 1860. He heard lately of one being killed near Rosehearty, but 

 he thinks it must have been a brown Ferret. I was informed by 

 Mr. Barclay, factor on the Brucklay estates, that one was killed near 

 Peterhead within the last two years (in 1879 or 1880). 



13. Badger. Meles taxus (Schreber). — Very rarely met with 

 now. Rev. Dr. Moir, in the Old Statistical Account (1792), says, 

 that he once saw a Badger killed in the parish of Longside, only 

 a few miles from Peterhead. Mr. Duncan says there used to be 

 Badgers killed in the Den of Auchmedden, and that he has killed 

 them there. He killed one at Glasslaw, near Aberdour, about 

 1860, and it is preserved in the collection at Brucklay Castle. 



14. Otter. Lutra vulgaris, Erxleben. — Tolerably common; 

 sometimes seen at the Loch of Strathbeg and on the banks of the 

 rivers Deveron and Ugie. There is little doubt, however, as Mr. 

 Edward says, that if it were not for the sea, and the shelter they 

 find along this rocky coast, they would soon be exterminated. 



Family : Phocidae. 



15. Common Seal. Phoca vitulina, Lin. — Several species of 

 Seals have been found at different times on this coast; but Mr. 

 Edward says that the Common Seal is the only one he can name 

 with certainty. 



Order IV. — Cetacea. 

 Family : Balaenopteridae. 



16. Common Rorqual, or Razor-back. Balaenojytera musculus 

 (Lin.). — This species, commonly called the Firmer among the fisher- 

 men, is occasionally stranded on the coast of Buchan. One was 

 washed ashore at Penman about fifteen years ago, say 1866 or 

 1867, and another was towed into Peterhead in 1871, a portion of 

 its skeleton being preserved in the Museum of the University of 

 Aberdeen.* 



Family : Physeteridae. 



17. Common Beaked- Whale. Hyjieroodoji restrains (Chemnitz). 



* Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, vol. iv., part i., Alston's "Mammalia of 

 Scotland," 2nd ed., p. 17. A ." 



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