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than thofe confin'd in parks in S. Britain. 

 Is very ckllru6tive to corn : in Skie the far- 

 mer is obliged to watch his crop. The 

 Duke of Argyle has, in fome parts of his 

 cftate, humanely permitted the tenant to 

 deftroy an animal fo noxious to his labors. 



7- jRoe. ^ Roe, Br. Zoal. I. 39. Syn. quad. No. 43. 



Er. Boc-earba. doe, Maoilfeach, young, meann. yearling, 

 minnfeach. 



FOUND in plenty from the wooded banks 

 of hough-Lomond .^ to the foreft near 

 Langwall in the S. of Cathnefs^ in Mull 

 and in Skie. The fkin and horns articles of 

 commerce. Brouze much : fond of the rubus 

 faxatilis^ called in Scotland the roe-buck- berry. 

 The fawns, when taken, are with great diffi- 

 culty reared, eight out of ten dying. 



%. Fallow. Fallow deer, Br. Zool. I. 34. Syv. quad. No. 37. 



NONE wild m Scotland % confin'd to 

 parks, -and not common : probably 

 introduced there from Denmark by James VI, 

 in his return from his vifit to that court in 

 1589 ; for Moyfes., a ferv^ant of his, mentions 

 in his memoirs, under the year 1586, that 

 his majefty one morning pafled over from 

 Leith to Falkland, and had along with him 

 a tame fallow deer, prefcnted to him by 

 B 3 the 



