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Hindsidehill are Lammermoor place-names , (Muirhead’s 
“ Birds of Berwickshire,” Introd., p. xv). 
Remains of the Red Deer have been unearthed in almost 
every part of the district, thus proving what history and 
tradition vaguely indicate, namely, that the animal once roamed 
over the entire area. The following list of localities is taken 
from Woodward and Sherborn’s “Catalogue of British Fossil 
Vertebrata” — Edinburgh, Elphinstone, Cockenzie, Drem, 
Athelstaneford, Seacliffe, Coldingham, Westruther, Kimmerg- 
hame, Whitrig Bog, Selkirk, Maxton, Linton, Uphall, Dundas 
Castle, Stirling, etc. Only a few weeks ago I was shown 
several leg-bones, which had just been found on the Pentlands, 
a locality whence many examples of Red Deer remains have 
been procured—specimens from near Bavelaw, for instance, 
also came under my notice not long ago. 
CERVUS DAMA ZL. FALLOW DEER. 
Seeing the Fallow Deer is not an indigenous animal in the 
country, and exists only in a semi-domesticated state in 
parks specially enclosed for its reception, its right to a place 
in this paper may be questioned. With Bell’s “ British 
(Juadrupeds” as a precedent, the usual practice, however, has 
been to include it in local faunal lists, and I see no reason to 
depart from that rule in the present instance. After all, it 
is practically as much entitled to a place in our fauna as the 
pheasant, and its claims to that distinction are certainly quite 
as good as those of the Canada goose or the mute swan. 
Without attempting to give a list of the deer-parks in 
the district, I may mention the following, with which I am 
personally familiar, namely :—the Duke of Buccleuch’s park 
at Dalkeith, and the Earl of Morton’s at Dalmahoy, both in 
Midlothian ; the Earl of Hopetoun’s, at Hopetoun House, 
Linlithgowshire; and Mrs Hamiiton-Ogilvy’s, at Biel, in 
East Lothian. 
The regulation strength of the Dalkeith herd is 300, and 
at the present time it contains rather over than under that 
number. Their presence adds another to the many charms 
of that fine park, and I know few more enjoyable sights than 
