6 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
in the Red Crag of Suffolk, have been attributed to a 
member of the present day genus, 7richechus huxleyt. The 
race of the Walruses was clearly in existence before the 
coming of the Glacial Period, and although no such early 
remains of the modern Walrus (7vcchechus rosmarus, 
Linnaeus) have been discovered, yet a skull found in peat 
near Ely, on the Ouse in Cambridgeshire, and a lower jaw 
from the Dogger Bank, show that in days later than the Ice 
Age the Walrus ranged in British Seas far south of its 
present haunts. Moreover, the laws of probability make 
clear that remains which have been embedded by chance, 
which have survived entombment through long ages, and 
which finally have been discovered in casual excavations, 
stand in a different category from, say, a modern far-south 
occurrence of the Walrus in the Severn (to a case of which 
I shall allude later), and that while the latter cannot be 
regarded otherwise than as an isolated presence, the former 
are much more likely to be representative of several or many 
local contemporaries of the race. It is a reasonable supposi- 
tion, then, that at, or previous to, the time when the Walrus 
occurred in the North Sea in the regions of the Dogger 
Bank and the Cambridgeshire fens it was a regular inhabitant 
of the coasts of Scotland. 
Actual occurrences of the Walrus in such far-off days are 
not easy to find, but the discovery of a tooth in an earth- 
house at Skara, Bay of Skaill, Orkney,! points to the capture 
of one of these creatures by man, and that at a period not 
long after his settlement in Scotland, for the earth-house 
contained implements of bone and numerous stone relics, 
indications of a primitive culture, as well as bones and horns 
of Red Deer and the Great Wild Ox (Bos primigentus), 
animals which at an early period disappeared from the fauna 
of the Orkney Islands. 
In Early Historic Times.—The evidence, scanty though 
it is, suggests that the Walrus still continued to be an 
inhabitant of Scotland during early historic times. The 
Scandinavian nations of Europe are known to have carved 
trinkets or ornaments from the tusks of the Walrus. In 
1 Proc. Soc. Antig. Scot., 1870, vol. Vil., p. 212. 
