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and in 1872 tlie numbers had risen to 500 head (Alston in Bryce's 

 Arran, 4th ed., 1872). 



37. fCEEVus DAMA, L. — FaUow Deer. In some places this 

 species runs wild and thrives, but in others it is more than semi- 

 domesticated. Amongst the places possessing herds are Culzean, 

 Eglinton, Douglas Castle, Stonebyres House, PoUok House, 

 Rossdhu, Inchlonaig, Inch Murren, and Brodick Castle. Diffi- 

 culties are experienced in maintaining the stock, and some herds 

 have died out. One such was at Cadzow, where the last 

 animals were killed off in 1898. There was a good stock pre- 

 vious to 1792. The Little Cumbrae was a deer forest in 

 A.D. 1453, " well stocked with deer and rabbits " (Paterson's 

 History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigtoivn, 1866, III., p. 338); 

 Monro (1549) calls it " Cumbray of the Dais, because there is 

 many Dais intil it; " and Monipennie (1597) is quite specific, 

 and speaks of " Little Cumbra, fertill of Fallow deere." I have 

 no information when they disappeared from this island, but they 

 are not mentioned as being there in either of the Statistical 

 Accounts. 



38. Capreolus caprka, Gray — Roe Deer. From the reports 

 in the new Statistical Account (1845) none of our mammals 

 seems to have been then better known than this species, and at the 

 present date I have records of it from so many places, extend- 

 ing from Dalquharran to Carmichael, and also in our Highlands, 

 that they need not be named. At some places, such as Culzean 

 and Eglinton, there has been a great diminution in numbers; 

 at Culzean they are reported to be nearly exterminated; 

 and in the country hunted by the Eglinton Foxhounds, where 

 in 1861 the coverts were full of lioe Deer, they have been 

 thinned out as spoil-sports. The wooded and secluded peninsula 

 of Rosneath has been a centre of distribution; animals from it 

 have been seen swimming across Loch Long to Cowal. In Arran 

 the Roe Deer was extinct long previous to 1845, but it occurs 

 at the present time in the island of Bute (Mr. John Robertson, 

 in lit., 12th June, 1901). 



39. *Rangifer tarandus {L.) — Reindeer. Remains of this 

 species (whose occurrence in Scotland within the historic period 

 is doubtful) have been found in Glasgow (Greendyke Street) and 

 at Partick, Raesgill (Carluke), Croftamie (Drymen), Woodliill 



