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forth young differing in colour from their own kind. He 

 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). 



ROE DEER. 

 CAPREOLUS CAPITA Gray. 



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 three 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 1890, has since been shown to 

 me. Wanderers may be seen almost every year crossing 

 the Pentlands, and I have a record of one shot in Midcalder 

 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 



