144 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, vol. v., p. '73, records 
“that a Mr Hunter over at Glenbuck [on the borders of 
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire] turned outa number” about 1861. 
Mr B. N. Peach tells me that they increased very rapidly in 
that district, and that when living at Muirkirk, about twenty- 
five years ago, he found them quite plentiful. A few were 
also turned down by Mr Cowan about twenty-four or twenty- 
five years ago on the Silverburn hills, the highest of the 
Pentlands. From these three, and probably other points of 
introduction, the species has now spread over the greater part 
of the southern hill-country, where I have myself frequently 
observed them at various times of the year. In Peeblesshire 
I have recently come across them on the hills above Glen 
Sax and at the head of Manor; while in Selkirkshire I met 
with a few on Ettrick Pen and the hills above Tushielaw in 
June 1889. On the Pentlands they are well known as far 
east as the Cairn hills on the one hand, and Scaldlaw on the 
other ; and Mr Cowan’s keeper tells me they are still spread- 
ing. There are now a few on the north Black-hill, and on 
the south side of the range he saw one on Capelaw during the 
winter of 1889-90; another came under my own observation 
recently on a spur of Carnethy. On Ist January 1889, I 
made an excursion to the tops of Craigengar and the West 
Cairn-hill for the express purpose of seeing these Hares in 
their white coats, and was rewarded by the sight of several. 
Mr P. Adair, who has shot many of them on the latter hill 
during the last nine or ten years, informs me he has there 
seen a hybrid between this and the Common Hare, and in 
January last I examined an undoubted example from near 
Cardrona in Peeblesshire. 
LEPUS CUNICULUS JZ. RABBIT, 
At the present time the Rabbit is perhaps the most 
ubiquitous of all our mammals, abounding alike on the islands 
of the Forth, and the dunes by the shores of the firths and 
estuaries; in the fields and woodlands of the plains; and 
among the rocks and pastures of the hills, where it lives at 
almost all elevations. From Sibbald’s statement (quoted 
