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W. Evans). Perhaps in some cases introductions were made from 
Continental Europe (Harvie-Brown, vi. 148); but such continental 
squirrels would have, of course, been S. vzlgarzs, of which no Scottish 
example has been identified. 
In Ireland it is now widely distributed, and common in a number of 
localities in many counties; but Barrington (Scz. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc., 
November 1880, 615-631) has shown that its presence may in all cases 
be traced to introductions, none of which took place earlier than about 
1815. He could find no trustworthy evidence of the presence of the 
animal in Ireland before the nineteenth century, and believed that it 
could not have been indigenous. 
The following twenty counties were scheduled by Barrington as 
harbouring Squirrels in 1880:—Wicklow, Dublin, Kildare, Wexford, 
Carlow, Kilkenny, Queen’s, King’s, Galway, Roscommon, Longford, 
Westmeath, Donegal, Antrim, Tyrone, Monaghan, Londonderry, 
Down, Armagh, and Louth. At that time there was no evidence 
of their occurrence in the remaining twelve counties of Fermanagh, 
Leitrim, Cavan, Meath, Sligo, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, 
Tipperary, and Waterford. 
Since 1880 Squirrels have vastly extended their range in Ireland, 
helped no doubt by further introductions—as in Wexford, where they 
were introduced near New Ross, and have, besides, entered the north of 
the county from Co. Wicklow, overrunning it in two directions until 
their two forces met. Further they have colonised a new county— 
Waterford — where they were reported to Barrett-Hamilton from 
Faithlegg in 1896 by Ussher. Adding Tipperary, in many parts of 
which they are plentiful, they are now in occupation of the whole 
south-east of Ireland. About the year 1895 they were seen at Glass- 
lough, Co. Fermanagh (James Brodie, Keeper, zw “¢, 30th January 
1895), as well as at the Deeps (Col. C. S. Walker, zz dt, 21st April 
1896), and at Edermine (Sir J. Power, zz “., April 1898), the two latter 
localities being in Wexford. By the same date they had quite overrun 
Co. Meath (Rev. J. B. Gibson, zz /¢., 26th December 1895). They 
have also appeared in the west, having been reported from Kerry 
(Jenner, Fze/d, 24th October 1908, 721), and there can be no doubt that 
their presence may be confidently expected in the immediate future 
in all the wooded parts of Ireland. 
Although Barrington could not have justifiably decided otherwise 
on the evidence which he had before him, there are now available a 
number of records pointing to the presence of the Squirrel as an 
indigenous member of the Irish fauna in historical times, and thus 
confirming the suggestion made previously by Harvie-Brown (of. czz., 
p. 80). In the numerous lists of the exports of Ireland which have 
now been published, and which date from the earliest times for 
