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in all cases where information is available, introduced. So universally 

 is this the case that it seems hardly necessary to give details. It is 

 present, generally in abundance, in the Farn and Holy Islands, the 

 Channel Islands, Wight, Lundy, Bardsey, Anglesey, the Skerries near 

 Holyhead (Pennant), Man (plentiful from at least 1658, Kermode); in 

 probably all the Clyde islands, as Ailsa Craig, Little Cumbrae (at 

 least from 1453), Great Cumbrae (previous to 1612, Boyd Watt), 

 Arran (Pennant, Alston), Bute (W. Evans, in lit.), and other smaller 

 islands (Boyd Watt) ; the Inner Hebrides, as Islay (Harvie-Brown and 

 Buckley), Jura, Colonsay (Pennant, Alston), lona (Harvie-Brown and 

 Buckley), Mull (Alston), Tiree (Harvie-Brown and Buckley), Coll 

 (Millais), Canna (Millais), and Skye (Macpherson) ; Handa and Rabbit 

 Island (Kyle of Tongue), Sutherland (Harvie-Brown and Buckley); 

 as well as the east coast islands in the Firth of Forth, including the Isle 

 of May (W. Evans), and the Bass Rock (Millais). Although absent from 

 St Kilda, it has been introduced into many of the Outer Hebrides, in 

 particular Barray, Vatersay, South Uist, North Uist, Harris and Lewis 

 (Harvie-Brown and Buckley). It was at an early date introduced in 

 the Orkneys, and soon became so numerous that 36,000 skins were 

 said to have been exported in 1795 (Alston). It is found on Fair Island 

 (Kinnear). 



According to Buckley and Evans, rabbits were plentiful in Shetland 

 in 1750, and their occurrence there had been recorded so far back as 

 1700. They are now found more or less numerously throughout most 

 of the larger islands from Unst to Dunrossness, but the above-named 

 authors know of only one warren, that of Quendale, where the animals 

 are really abundant. They are found on Fetlar, have been exter- 

 minated on Oxna, in Scalloway Bay, but are plentiful in Foula. 



They are absent from the Faroes, or were so at the time of Feilden's 

 last visit about 1890. 



Many of the small islets off Ireland harbour colonies of rabbits. 

 There may be mentioned Inistrahull, Co. Donegal {h'ish Naturalist, 

 1897, 68); Lambay, Co. Dublin, where they were noticed by Rutty 

 {Nat. Hist. Co. of Dublin, 1772, 274), and were so abundant in 1907 

 that 24,000 were killed in two years (Baring, Irish Naturalist, 1907, 

 22) ; the Saltees and Keeraghs, Co. Wexford (Barrett-Hamilton, Irish 

 Naturalist, 1894, 68); the North Blasket, Western Island and Inish- 

 nabro, Co. Kerry (Andrews, Dublin Nat. Hist. Review, ii., 1855, 94). 

 The ancient fort of Dun .^Engus in Arran is practically a great warren 

 {fide H. H. Brindley, 1888) ; and the animals are found also on Inish- 

 bofin ; Inishturk ; Caher (Browne, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., December 

 1898); and Clare Islands, in the latter case having been recently 

 introduced (Westropp, Proc. cit., " Clare Island Survey," December 

 191 1, pt. 2, 34). A complete list is a desideratum. 



