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soon set in, and in the course of a few years the Roe had 

 made its appearance in many localities from which it had 

 long been absent.^ In the " New Statistical Account " of the 

 parish of Alloa (page 9), we read that " Roe-deer .... have 

 been seen occasionally for more than thirty years in Tullibody 

 woods," and the writer of the article on Tillicoultry, in the 

 same volume (Clackmannanshire, p. 70), says of it, " occasion- 

 ally seen in the neighbouring plantations." In the same 

 publication it is included among the wild animals of 

 Gargunnock and Fintry in Stirlingshire. " In Fife," writes 

 Fleming (1828), " they have reappeared of late years, in 

 consequence of the increase of plantations " (" British 

 Animals," p. 26) ; and Professor Duns, in an article on the 

 migration of mammals, contributed to " Science for All," 

 mentions their subsequent periodical appearance in a planta- 

 tion bordering on the banks of the Avon, in Linlithgowshire. 

 From an incidental remark in Jackson's " Chivalry of Scot- 

 land in the Days of King Robert Bruce, including the Royal 

 Hunt of Roslin," published in 1848, the date of its reappear- 

 ance at Penicuik, on the south side of the Pentlands, may be 

 fixed at from 1840 to 1845. "Deer in a wild state have," he 

 says, " lately come to the woods of Sir George Clerk, Bart., 

 about two miles from King Side Edge" (page 109). 



^ A return movement was noted before the close of last century in the valley 

 of the Tay (" Old Statistical Account," Little Dunkeld, vi., p. 361). 



