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Norway, and unlike the flattened antlers of the 

 Siberian stock/* 



As regards its occurrence in Scotland, much 

 valuable information has been brought together by 

 Dr. John Alexander Smith, in a memoir published 

 in the " Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland," and entitled ' Notice of Remains of the 

 Reindeer (Cervus tarandus), found in Ross-shire, 

 Sutherland, and Caithness, with notes of its occur- 

 rence throughout Scotland. 't 



In 1866 part of a horn (apparently the tine 

 that springs from the back part of the middle of the 

 beam) was found with a flint arrowhead, and bones 

 of an ox Bos longifrons and dog, near two hut 

 circles, in the course of draining the Mor-aich Mor, 

 or Great Grazing, as the Gaelic words signify a 

 flat, sandy tract to the east of Tain, Ross-shire, 

 bordered on the north by the Domoch Firth. % 



These bones, which lay beneath the moss on a 

 natural shell bed at no distance below the surface 

 (the drainage being only carried to the depth of four 

 feet), were forwarded for examination to Prof. Owen, 

 who had no hesitation in identifying the horn re- 

 ferred to as that of a Reindeer. 



Several similar fragments were found on clearing 

 out the ruins of an ancient circular fort or " brocli" 



* Leith Adams, "Beport on Irish Fossil Mammals," I.e. Comparative 

 figures of the horns of Lapland and Siberian Eeindeer are given in 

 Murray's " Geographical Distribution of Mammals," pp. 152, 153. See 

 also Sir Victor Brooke, "Proc. Zool. Soc." 1878, p. 927, tig. 19. 



t "Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl.," vol. viii. pp. 186-223. 



Rev. J. M. Joass, "Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl.," vol. vi. p. 386. 



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