The Mammalian Fuuna of the Edinburgh District. 89 
As the sole object of this paper is to furnish information 
concerning the mammals now or recently to be found in 
the district, I have deemed it expedient to include in the 
catalogue only those species which are known to have 
occurred within the present century. Disregarding such as 
had disappeared before Sibbald’s day, and also the Narwhal 
(Monodon monoceros), of which an example, obtained near 
the Isle of May in June 1648, is mentioned by Tulpius 
(“ Obs. Med.,” p. 376), I thus exclude but one species having 
anything like a substantial claim to a place in the list, namely, 
the Sperm Whale or Cachelot (Physeter macrocephalus), 
of which three are recorded as having been stranded in the 
Forth, namely, one at Limekilns in 1689, and two near 
Cramond, in 1701 and 1769 respectively. The fact that 
when the Athole herd of the so-called Wild White Cattle was 
broken up in 1834, about a dozen of them were secured by 
the then Duke of Buccleuch, and kept for a few years in the 
park at Dalkeith, does not entitle the animal to a place 
in this list, even when taken in connection with Bishop 
Leslie’s statement that it existed at Stirling (in the royal 
park 7?) in 1578. Those who desire information regarding the 
extinct forms may be referred to Owen’s “ British Fossil 
Mammals and Birds,” Dr J. A. Smith’s papers in the 
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 
(vols. viil., ix., etc.), Woodward & Sherborn’s “Catalogue of 
British Fossil Vertebrata,” and Harting’s “ British Animals 
Extinct within Historic Times.” 
The number of recent species (exclusive of the White 
Cattle) hitherto recorded on satisfactory evidence for the 
whole of Scotland is fifty-seven, which includes six additions 
to Alston’s 1880 catalogue, namely, two Bats (Vespertilio 
(Berwickshire), Linton Moss (Roxburghshire), and Loch Marlee (Perthshire) ; 
of the Elk at Whitrig Bog (Berwickshire), near Hawick, and near Selkirk ; 
apparently also at Duddingston and near Cramond (Midlothian), near North 
Berwick (East Lothian), Kirkurd (Peeblesshire), Marlee (Perthshire), etc.; 
of the Reindeer near Craigton (Linlithgowshire), and on the Pentland 
Hills; of the Great Long-horned Ox or Urus at Whitrig Bog and 
Swinton Mill (Berwickshire), near Jedburgh, Lilliesleaf, and Linton Moss 
(Roxburghshire), Whitmuirhall near Selkirk, Newburgh (Fife), etc.; and 
of the Mammoth at Clifton Hall on the confines of the counties of Edin- 
burgh and Linlithgow (Mem. Wern. Soc,, iv’, 58), and at Kimmerghame. 
