The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District. 153 
serves the memory only of the Red Deer and the Roe. The 
latter seems to have survived after the extinction of the 
former. It is probably, however, at least two hundred years 
since the last really wild deer was killed in the county.” 
The nearest parish in which I find it mentioned in the “ Old 
Statistical Account” is Callander; “ Roes,” says the writer, 
“breed in our woods” (vol. xi, p. 598).? 
Prior to the middle of the last century, comparatively few 
artificially-planted woods of any extent existed in the district. 
About that time, however, the planting of trees became very 
popular among the proprietors of the land, and in the course 
of the next twenty or thirty years thousands of acres in all 
parts of the country were utilised in this way. By the 
beginning of the present century many of these plantations 
were of sufficient growth to afford excellent shelter to such 
an animal as the Roe, which was now, so to speak, being 
invited to return to its former haunts. The return movement 
soon set in, and in the course of a few years the Roe had 
made its appearance in many localities from which it had 
long been absent.?2 In the “ New Statistical Account” of the 
parish of Alloa (page 9), we read that “Roe-deer . . . . have 
been seen occasionally for more than thirty years in Tullibody 
woods,” and the writer of the article on Tillicoultry, in the 
same volume (Clackmannanshire, p. 70), says of it, “ occasion- 
ally seen in the neighbouring plantations.” In the same 
publication it is included among the wild animals of 
Gargunnock and Fintry in Stirlingshire. “In Fife,” writes 
Fleming (1828), “they have reappeared of late years, in 
consequence of the increase of plantations” (“ British 
Animals,” p. 26); and Professor Duns, in an article on the 
migration of mammals, contributed to “Science for All,” 
mentions their subsequent periodical appearance in a planta- 
tion bordering on the banks of the Avon, in Linlithgowshire. 
From an incidental remark in Jackson’s “ Chivalry of Scot- 
land in the Days of King Robert Bruce, including the Royal 
Hunt of Roslin,” published in 1848, the date of its reappear- 
1 See also Graham’s Sketches of Perthshire. 
2 A return movement was noted before the close of last century in the valley 
of the Tay (‘‘ Old Statistical Account,” Little Dunkeld, vi., p. 361). 
