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soon set in, and in the course of a few years the Eoe had 

 made its appearance in many localities from which it had 

 long been absent. 1 In the " New Statistical Account " of the 

 parish of Alloa (page 9), we read that " Koe-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 Eobert Bruce, including the Epyal 

 Hunt of Eoslin," published in 1848, the date of its reappear- 

 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). 



1 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). 



