The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District. 147 
Order UNGULATA. 
CERVUS ELAPHUS J. Rep DEER. 
But for the protection of the deer-forest, it is very doubtful 
if I should have been able to mention the Red Deer as still 
an indigenous animal anywhere in the district. Semi- 
domesticated animals are kept in a few of the parks of the 
nobility, but we must pass beyond Dunblane before there 
is even a chance of seeing the Stag on his native heath. 
The only deer-forest having any connection with the dis- 
trict is Glenartney, the southern portion of which touches 
the valley of the Forth, on the water-shed behind Doune and 
Callander. It has been fenced in about twenty years, and at 
the present time is said to contain fully 1000 deer. Stragglers 
are occasionally to be seen outside the precincts of the forest, — 
but, as a rule, they do not wander far from it. I have 
myself observed them on the hills to the east of Loch 
Lubnaig, and Colonel Duthie informs me that he saw six, 
marching in line, on the braes of Doune, on the 22nd of 
July 1889—they were on the Doune side of the wire fence, 
which marks the march between Lord Moray’s moor and the 
Glenartney forest. In the “Old Statistical Account” of the 
parish of Doune (xx., p. 49), it 1s recorded that: “On the 
sides of Uaighmor, the stag bounds along the heath;” and in 
Graham’s “ Sketches of Perthshire” (ed. 1812), it is stated to 
have been then (as now) occasionally seen in the neighbour- 
hood of the Trossachs. “In hard winters,” he says, “when 
provender is scarce, the Red Deer of the northern forests 
sometimes wander in quest of food and shelter, as far as 
Glenfinglas and the heights of Craig-vad” (see also the 
“ Old Statistical Account” of Callander, 1794, vol. x1., p. 598). 
About ten years ago Red Deer were introduced to the park 
at Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire, where I have seen them on 
several occasions. The keeper tells me there are twenty-six in 
the park at present, but that four years ago there were fully 
double that number. During the winter of 1889-90 a hind, 
doubtless an escape from Hopetoun, made its appearance in 
Dalmeny park, where it remained some months, but had 
