12 MAMMALIA. 
the wild stock which formerly inhabited the surrounding 
districts. A deed of agreement between the Countess 
dowager of Pembroke and the Countess of Cork, dated 
May 20, 1654, shows the probable date at which the deer 
of Wharfedale were walled in at Barden and Bolton. 
57. Cervus dama Z. Fallow Deer. 
Domesticated, only in parks. 
58. Capreolus capreea Gray. Roe Deer. 
Domesticated, in a few parks only. Formerly inhabited the 
county in a wild state. In the time of Edward III. they 
were numerous in the forest of Pickering, and in 1340 
were the subject of a prosecution instituted by the Crown 
against Henry de Percy, lord of the adjacent manor of 
Semere. 
Bones have occurred in the Raygill cave, but cave in very few 
instances anywhere. 
Fam. BOVIDZ. - 
59. Bos taurus Z. Wild White Cattle. 
Extinct. Two herds existed in Yorkshire till within recent 
years—at Gisburn in Craven, and at Burton Constable in 
Holderness, but in a state of semi-domestication. The 
latter herd perished of distemper shortly before the close 
of the last century. That at Gisburn Park continued to 
exist till 1859, when the last bull was killed, the breed 
having so degenerated from constant inter-breeding that it 
was impossible to keep them longer. 

Order RODENTIA. 
Sub-order SIMPLICIDENTATA. 
Section SCIUROMORPHA. 
Fam. SCIURIDA. 
60. Sciurus vulgaris Z. Squirrel. 
Generally distributed, and common in woods and plantations. 
