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told, it is occasionally seen, chiefly in the more inland parts ; 
and in most of the woodlands of Stirling and south-west 
Perth it is more or less common. It inhabits the extensive 
woods at Tulliallan, where I have myself seen it, and its 
appearance in the plantations of some of the adjoining 
properties is not a very rare occurrence. In the west of 
Fife it is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Saline, for 
instance; but in the east of the county it appears to be rare 
—a, few, however, still exist in the woods at Falkland. 
In olden times the Roe was, without doubt, much more 
abundant and generally distributed in the district than now, 
but the destruction of the forests and thickets, the growth 
of agriculture, and the loss of protection, gradually drove it 
from the southern section of Scotland, so that during the 
whole of the eighteenth century, and probably longer, it 
seems to have been entirely absent from our bounds, except 
in the mountainous. country around Callander. In most 
localities the “Rae” probably long survived the Red Deer, but, 
apart from tradition and a few place-names, there is compara- 
tively little evidence of its former abundance. I cannot recall 
any direct historical evidence for the area with which we are 
more immediately concerned, but as proving the existence 
of the animal in the south of Scotland during the reign of 
Alexander II. (1214-1249), I may refer to the oft-quoted 
agreement between the Avenels and the Monks of Melrose, 
by which the latter were expressly precluded from hunting 
Hart and Hind, Boar and Roe, in the forest of Eskdale (C. 
Innes’s “Sketches of Early Scotch History,” p. 103, and the 
Duke of Argyll’s “Scotland as It Was and as It Is,” 2nd ed., 
p. 52). Remains of the Roe seem to be less frequently 
brought to light than those of the Red Deer. The discovery 
by Dr Hardy of a portion of an antler in the vicinity of an 
ancient British camp at Oldcambus, in the extreme east of 
Berwickshire, is a fact of much interest (Proc. Berw. Nat. 
Club, ix., p. 242). As already mentioned (p. 148), the 
animal is alluded to by Dr Pennecuik (1715) as a former 
inhabitant of Tweeddale, and in Chambers’s “ History of 
Peeblesshire” (1864, p. 525), we read, “Of the animals 
which have become extinct in Peeblesshire, tradition pre- 
