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who hunted this district; his salary was paid by the tenants, 
at so much per plough, which huntsman and dogs were kept 
and fed by each tenant in his turn” (vol. xv., p. 823). 
CALLANDER (PERTH).—“ Red deer come here for food and 
shelter in severe winters. Roes breed in our woods. Hares, 
rabbits, foxes, wild cats, badgers, otters, moles, polecats, 
weasels, and black martins, are also to be found here” 
(vol. xi, p. 598). 
Dounge (Soura-West Perrn).—‘ The wild animals here 
are the same as in the neighbouring parishes, hares, rabbits, 
foxes, badgers, otters, foumarts, or polecats. The braes on 
the north-east side of Cambuswallace House have been long 
a receptacle for badgers and foxes; but these mischievous 
animals are now much banished” (vol. xx., p. 49). 
ALLOA (CLACKMANNAN).—“ The wild animals are the same 
as are common to all the Low Country: hares, rabbits, foxes, 
badgers, otters, fowmarts, or polecats, and stoats, or ermines. 
Theselastarevery rare.. Thereare no wildcats” (vol. viii. p.645). 
See also Tillicoultry, where hedgehogs and weasels are added. 
FossAWAY AND TULLIEBOLE (PERTH AND Krnross).—“ Of 
quadrupeds, there are foxes, badgers, otters, polecats, hares, 
and rabbits” (vol. xviii., p. 466). | 
CASTLETOWN (RoxspurGH).—“The wild quadrupeds are 
foxes, hares, wild cats, polecats, weasels, the white weasel, 
often seen in winter, hedgehogs, and Norway rats” (xvi., 76). 
Many of the terrestrial species mentioned in the following 
pages have doubtless been inhabitants of the district from a 
remote antiquity. The naturalist, therefore (and I feel sure 
the sportsman too, if he would but allow himself to look at 
the matter in all its aspects), cannot contemplate without 
feelings of regret the extermination of such animals as the 
Wild Cat, the Marten, the Polecat, and the Badger, whose 
ancestors were the contemporaries of the Bear, the Wolf; the 
Wild Boar, and the Beaver, and in all probability inhabited 
the district while extinct Deer and Oxen, and maybe even 
the gigantic Mammoth, still lingered on its soil. 
1 Evidence of the former existence of the Bear, the Wolf, and the Wild 
Boar, even within historic times, is not wanting ; and remains of the Wolf 
have been found on the Pentland Hills; of the Beaver at Kimmerghame 
