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numbers. The Rivers Doon and Ayr are annually visited by 

 the Dumfriesshire Otter Hunt, and Mr. Carnaby Foster's Hounds 

 have hunted in Arran occasionally. From this island there is 

 evidence that the species is an old-established inhabitant, as 

 Dr. E. Duncan obtained the skull of a Badger in excavating a 

 ong barrow at Lagg in August, 1896. A specimen shown at 

 he Aaidersonian Naturalists' Society, Glasgow, in Januaiy, 1893 

 from the River Kelvin at Summerston, is stated to have been 

 when in the flesh, 49^- inches long and 26 lbs. in weight. 



Family Ursidce. 

 20. *IjRsus ARCTOS, Z.-Brown Bear. Long extinct, althougli 

 apparently known in Scotland at the time of the Eoman occupa- 

 tion^ The record marked on Inch Murren in the Mammals Map 

 m the Jio,jal Scottish Geographical Society's Atlas (Plate VII ) is 

 probably due to the statement made by Colonel Thornton 



\lZ\ !l T '^'"""'^^ ^°'''^'''' ^'^^^««^ ^""^^ the Highlands 

 1804), that Lord Graham had turned out a few wild bears on 

 this Loch Lomond island. 



ORDER RODENTIA. 

 Family Sciuridce. 

 21 SciURUs VULGARIS, Z. - Squirrel. Interesting and full 

 details of the spread and progress of this species in the Clyde 

 area are given in Mr. J. A. Harvi^Brown's History of the 

 Sr^n^rrel ^n Great Britain (1881). The species continues common 

 -n the woodlands, notwithstanding a long list of misdeeds charged 

 against it-..^., damaging young trees; ruining silver L; 

 stnpping tl.e bark off Wellingtonias; plucking horse-chestnut 

 buds, digging up crocus bulbs; and, worst of all, scaring young 

 pheasants from their roosting trees to the ground, where they 

 faU a prey to foxes. I do not know of its occurrence in Z 

 .Un . a though at one time it wa. in Bute. It approaches Z 

 Ticmity of our towns, and on two different dates in 1896 I 

 ^w a squin-el in the Queen's Park, Glasgow. I have observed 



LT^Z ]^ "fonn ''' '^P^' "^ winter-.^., at Bemi.ore on 

 30th December, 1900, and at Eglinton on 1st January, 1903 



