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Penicuik, and in September 1903 I startled one in Saltoun 

 Wood, East Lothian. In June 1901, and again on 6th May 

 1905, I met with them in Blairadam woods, near Kinross — 

 on the latter occasion, no less than twelve were in view at 

 one time. In the course of the last few years I have seen 

 Roe in the woods at Duchray near Aberfoyle, at Balquhidder, 

 and at Callander. " Roe-deer," says the writer of the New 

 Statistical Account of Gargunnock, 1841, "breed in great 

 numbers in the glen of Boquhan," Stirlingshire. My 

 brother-in-law, the late David Deuchar, possessed the 

 antlers of a Roe which was shot on his father's ground at 

 Morningside, Edinburgh, about 1844. 



Common Rorqual {Balmnoptera physalus (L.) 

 = B. mttsctdus, Auct.). 



On 19th February 1903, a Common Rorqual or Razorback 

 — a female about 46 feet in length — got stranded on the 

 beach at Kirkcaldy, where it was attacked and killed by 

 some men armed with a hedgebill. I had several 

 opportunities of examining this animal, and an illustrated 

 description of it, which I prepared, was published in the 

 Annals Scot Nat. Hist., 1904, pp. 71-74. It was sold by 

 the Board of Trade for the small sum of £2. No example 

 of this whale had been identified in the Firth of Forth 

 since 1808. 



Lesser Rorqual {Bakenoptera acuto-rostrata, Lacep.). 



The carcase of a Lesser Rorqual was washed ashore to 

 the east of Barnes-ness Lighthouse, near Dunbar, on 29th 

 September last (1905). It was a female, and measured 

 about 27 feet in length. I went to see it on 2nd October, 

 and found it in a very dilapidated condition ; from its 

 appearance I should say it had been dead for several weeks, 

 if not months. The baleen was of a creamy white colour 

 throughout (specimen exhibited). 



A list of occurrences of this species of whale in Scottish 

 waters prior to 1892 will be found in a paper by Sir William 

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