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ance at Penicuik, on the south side of the Pentlands, may be 
fixed at from 1840 to 1845. “Deer in a wild state have,” he 
says, “lately come to the woods of Sir George Clerk, Bart., 
about two miles from King Side Edge” (page 109). 
Order CETACEA. 
MEGAPTERA BooPS (Fab.)=M. LONGIMANA (Rudolph). 
HUMP-BACKED WHALE. 
The true or “ whale-bone ” Whales mentioned in this paper 
can only be looked upon as casual visitors to our waters,— 
wanderers from their proper habitats in the North Atlantic 
and Arctic Oceans. They appear to be all more or less 
migratory, but the North Sea scarcely falls within the area 
of their periodical movements. Except in a very few 
instances, the occurrences cited in the following pages have 
taken place during the autumn and winter months, September 
being the most productive. Semi-fossil remains of large 
Whales: have been found on several occasions (see Milne 
Home’s “ Estuary of the Forth,” p. 25). 
With us the Hump-backed Whale is a casual visitant 
of very rare occurrence. Of the three examples that have 
been recognised in Scottish waters, two may be mentioned 
here, namely, one which was cast ashore about two miles 
north of Berwick-upon-Tweed on 19th September 1829, and 
the famous “Tay Whale,” which for five or six weeks in the 
end of 1883 disported itself frequently in the Firth of Tay 
opposite Dundee, to the astonishment of the good folks of 
that town. 
The Berwick specimen, which was described and figured 
by Dr George Johnston in the Transactions of the Natural 
History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Neweastle- 
on-T'yne (vol. i., p. 6), was between 35 and 36 feet in length, 
24 feet in girth, and had pectoral fins 9 feet long. It wasa 
female. In its stomach were six cormorants, and a seventh, 
on which it was presumed to have choked, was sticking in its 
throat. It was sold for £17, 2s. 6d., and yielded only about 
