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31.— COMIVION HARE. Lepiis europmis Pallas. 

 Generally distributed but not common everjrwhere. 



32.— MOUNTAIN HARE. Lepus timidus Linn. 



An introduced species ; common on some mountains. 



The hares in the Snowdon district turned down by Lord Penrhyn 

 were brought from the property of Captain Dewar, adjoining 

 the Drummond Castle estate near Crieff. In March, 1910, Mr. 

 Harold King observed several in the white coat on Moel-y-Ci 

 and the slopes of Carnedd Dafydd. 



33. — RABBIT. Orydolagus cuniculus (Linn.), 



Common everywhere. 



There are white wild Rabbits on Penmon and Newborough 

 warrens, Anglesey. 



RED DEER. Cervus elaphus Linn. 



Semi-domesticated in certain parks ; survived in the wild state till the 

 eighteenth century. 



Several very large skulls and antlers were found along the 

 foreshore in the Barmouth district in 1912-14. In 1913 a 

 skull and parts of skeleton were found at ToAvyii. Bingley 

 in his Tour I., 199, writes of Snowdonia : — " These mountains 

 formerly abounded in deer, which even continued in great 

 quantities till much later than the reign of Henry VIII., but 

 after the use of firearms became general they were soon all 

 destroyed." Pennant, too, writes of this same district {Tour, 

 II., 341) " Stags were found here in the da3'^s of Leland in such 

 numbers as to destroy the little corn which the farmers attempted 

 to sow, but they were extirpated before 1626." 



34.— FALLOW DEER. Dama dmna (Linn.). 



Not indigenous : kept semi-domesticated in parks. 



Peimant, in British Zoology, gives the Welsh name as Gafr- 

 danas= Danish Goat, and says that the Fallow Deer were 

 introduced from Norway by James I. when he visited his 

 intended bride, Mary of Denmark. This was probably mere 

 fancy on his part In his Tmir, II., 250, he mentions that 



