20 The Vertebrates of Sol way. 



mountain" (Merrick). I boug-lit at a book sale one day a work in 

 two vols., entitled " The Natural History of Quadrupeds and Ceta- 

 ceous Animals." published at Bungay, in Suffolk, in 1811. The 

 work is profusely illustrated with coloured plates, but is a mere 

 compilation, and its only value is its extreme scarcity. I find an 

 allusion therein (vol. ii., p. 209) to the Galloway deer, which is of 

 interest. " So late as in the beg-inning of the last century (1700) 

 there were Red Deer scattered over the hills of Galloway. But 

 by the eagerness with which the peasants pursued them they have 

 been long since exterminated from that district." A remnant 

 must have been left, for, according to the " New Statistical 

 Account," Kells parish, February, 1844, " deer were occasionally 

 seen in the remembrance of some old people." 



The Fallow Deer {Cervus datna, Linn.). 



The '-New Statistical Account" records in the notes to the 

 parish of Johnstone that in 1780 James, Earl of Hopetoun, brought 

 a dozen of Fallow Beer to Raehills, where they were placed in au 

 enclosure, but subsequently broke out and were never confined 

 again. They gave rise to a numerous herd that roamed at large 

 in Upper Annandale, and in 1844 it was computed that they num- 

 bered upwards of 200. Orders to destroy them were issued, and 

 although more than 50 were killed within a week their utter de- 

 struction was not accomplished before the orders were recalled. 

 It is believed that possibly a few descendants are still at large, 

 but as these may be confused with individuals recently escaped 

 from tho parks, there can be no certainty. 



The Roe Deer {Capreolus Caprcea, Gray.). 



I have been unable to ascertain with any certahity the date 

 when this species became extmct in Solway. Probably' it was not 

 found here at any time during the 18th century. In the early 

 part of the present century, when the great increase in plantations 

 took place, suitable haunts for this woodland deer were offered, of 

 which it took advantage when sufficient advance in their growth 

 had taken place. 



The return of the Roe to Annandale was put down by Sir 

 William Jardine as shortly after 1854, but thei'e is every proba- 

 bility that it was a few years earlier, for the writer of the account 

 of the parish of Johnstone, in the N.S.A., states that " within 



