( 4 ) 

 The great horned fheep of Sf. Kilda, men- 

 tioned by Boethius^ may have been the 

 MusiMON^, Syn, quad. No, ii. 



GOAT. 



D.'niertic. Domeilic Goat, Br. Zoo/. I, 29, iv. tab. 99. Syn. quad. p. 



14. 

 Er. He, Boc, Gaibhre. She, Gabhar. Kid, meann. 



ERDS of thefe animals common in 

 the highlands and iflands : cultivated 

 for their milk : invalids refort to Dunkeld^ 

 and otner places, in Summer, for the fake 

 of drinking it medicinally : checfe often 

 made of it : the ikins an article of com- 

 merce : the flefh, in fome of the illes, faked 

 for Winter provifiqn. 



DEER. 



Stag. Stag, Br. Zoo!. I. 34. Sj?:. quad. No. 38. 



• • ' ■ Er, I>amh-fcilh. hind, Eilid, agh. calf. I.acgh. , 



FOUND in a (late of nature over all the 

 Highla7ids, and in great herds : inhabits 

 alio the ifles .of Arran,. Jura^ Mull., Riim^ 

 Skie^ Harris and Lcjuis. Often grows to a 

 great fi?e : I have heard of one, killed in 

 Braemar^ihAtwc\^^d-id>^. Scotch. Is the 

 principal venifon of the Highlands ; lefs coarfe 



than 



