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1904. One of them was very loath to quit some peat hags 

 in which lay patches of snow, and several times it allowed 

 me to approach within 5 or 6 yards, present my camera, and 

 expose a plate. On the range of hills between Loch Ard and 

 the Trossachs, 1 found this species common in April 1896, 

 as also on Stuc-a-Chroin in September this year. 



Note. — An albino Common Hare {Lepits europceus, Pall.), 

 shot near Lauder in January 1862, was exhibited at a meeting 

 of this Society the following month {Proceedings, 11. p. 363). 

 I may here also mention that in August 1904 I caught 

 a rabbit on the Isle of May — where at one time a well- 

 marked variety existed — in no way different from the ordinary 

 wild ones of the mainland. 



Eed Deer iCervits elaphus, L.). 



While staying at Aberfoyle in May 1896, I saw several 

 Eed Deer on the Duchray Castle shootings. Monochyle 

 Glen, where I saw a herd of about forty in September 1902, 

 and the hills about Am Binnein, are now the home of a fair 

 number of Eed Deer, the first settlers having come, it is 

 said, from the Black Mount. When Smeaton Lake, in East 

 Lothian, was being cleaned out between 1828 and 1830, 

 remains of both Eed and Eoe Deer were found in the moss 

 of the pond, as narrated by Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn 

 in his address to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club in 

 October 1902 ; and a few years ago, antlers and other 

 remains of Eed Deer were found in the superficial deposits 

 of Hailes Quarry, near Edinburgh, as described by Dr Hepburn 

 and Mr Simpson at a meeting of the Edinburgh Geological 

 Society in March 1899.^ Mr G. Scott, Oxgangs, tells me 

 Eed Deer remains were got many years ago where the 

 Craiglockhart skating-ponds now are. 



Eoe Deer {Capr coins caprma., Gray). 

 Eoe Deer still inhabit the woods about Arnislon and 



^ Bones of the Reindeer {Rangifer tai^andus) and a frontal bone with horn 

 cores of Bos primigenius, found under 6 feet of peat when a lake at Dundas 

 Castle, Linlithgowshire, was being enlarged, were exhibited by Dr R. H. 

 Traquair at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 2nd May 1904, 



