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also states that the dark variety was first introduced into 
Scotland by James VI. The Dalkeith deer-park is mentioned 
in the “ Old Statistical Account” (vol. xii., p. 27). 
CAPREOLUS CAPR&A Gray. Roe DEER. 
At the present time the Roe Deer is locally not uncommon 
‘In the district. In Midlothian it is practically confined to 
the upper section of the country drained by the two 
branches of the Esk, the individuals now and again seen 
in other parts of the county being mere wanderers. From 
1865 to 1872 I was very familiar with it on the wooded 
banks of the North Esk above Penicuik, where as many as 
eight or nine might occasionally be seen together. A few 
were shot annually, so that their numbers scarcely varied 
from year to year, but there is reason to believe a heavy toll 
has occasionally been levied from them during recent years. 
About two years ago, I startled one in the old haunts, and 
the head of another, which had been killed in the woods 
near Glencorse in December last, was shown to me a few 
days ago. Wanderers may be seen almost every year cross- 
ing the Pentlands, and I have a record of one shot in Mid- 
calder parish. On the South Esk it is well known in the 
country around Temple, and quite recently I had an excellent 
view of one in a large wood between that village and 
Gorebridge. It may also be seen from time to time in the 
adjacent parts of East Lothian (the woods at Humbie and 
Salton, for instance, are localities from which I have had it 
reported), but throughout the rest of that county it seems 
to be entirely absent, nor can I hear of it in the adjoining 
parts of Berwickshire, except as a rare straggler as far east, 
however, as the Pease dean woods (Letter from Dr Hardy). In 
Peeblesshire they have established themselves in most of the 
large fir plantations which now clothe the hill-sides on both 
banks of the Tweed, and a few are annually shot by the sports- 
men of that district. In November 1888 I was delighted to 
see a party of six bounding through a thicket in the grounds 
at Portmore, near Eddleston, and a similar group may be 
seen in the woods at Dawyck. In Linlithgowshire, I am 
