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leg bones of the Reindeer.* These are probably the 
bones referred to in the old Statistical Account of 
Scotland (vol. xvii. p. 478), as having been found in 
Mr. Farquharson’s marl-pit at Marlee, and surmised 
to be those of the Elk. 
Dr. Smith has figured the smooth beam of a 
right horn of a young or female Reindeer (tom. cit., 
p. 23), taken from a cutting of the Forth and Clyde 
Junction Railway, in the basin of the Endrick, near 
Croftamie, Dumbartonshire. This specimen, which 
was identified by Professor Owen, was not in the 
boulder clay, but in a bed of blue clay, about seven 
feet thick, below it, between the boulder clay and the 
underlying rock of the district. 
Again, on the farm of Greenhill, near Kilmaurs, 
Ayrshire, some antlers of a large Reindeer were found 
thirty-six feet below the surface, together with a 
tusk of the Mammoth. t 
The late Sir William Jardine had, a few years 
since, an opportunity of examining some very interest- 
ing animal remains, which were exhumed at Shaws, 
about four miles from his residence in Dumfriesshire. 
Besides several bones of the Red deer, Roedeer, Bos 
primigenius (the last named rare), and a very perfect 
skull of the Brown Bear, already referred to, was a 
portion of an antler, which, from its outline, flattened 
character, and smooth surface, could have belonged 
only to a Reindeer; it measured about twelve 
* Neill, “Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc.,” vol. iii. p. 214. 
+ See Geikie, ‘Memoir on the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of 
Scotland,’ “Trans. Geol. Soc, Glasgow,” vol. i. p. 71 (1863). 
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