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W. Evans). Perhaps in some cases introductions were made from 

 Continental Europe (Harvie-Brown, vi., 148) ; but such continental 

 squirrels would have, of course, been 5. vulgaris, of which no Scottish 

 example has been identified. 



In Ireland it is now widely distributed, and common in a number of 

 localities in many counties ; but Harrington {Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc, 

 November 1880, 615-631) has shown that its presence may in all cases 

 be traced to introductions, none of which took place earlier than about 

 1 81 5. He could find no trustworthy evidence of the presence of the 

 animal in Ireland before the nineteenth century, and believed that it 

 could not have been indigenous. 



The following twenty counties were scheduled by Barrington as 

 harbouring Squirrels in 1880: — Wicklow, Dublin, Kildare, Wexford, 

 Carlow, Kilkenny, Queen's, King's, Galway, Roscommon, Longford, 

 Westmeath, Donegal, Antrim, Tyrone, Monaghan, Londonderry, 

 Down, Armagh, and Louth. At that time there was no evidence 

 of their occurrence in the remaining twelve counties of Fermanagh, 

 Leitrim, Cavan, Meath, Sligo, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, 

 Tipperary, and Waterford. 



Since 1880 Squirrels have vastly extended their range in Ireland, 

 helped no doubt by further introductions — as in Wexford, where they 

 were introduced near New Ross, and have, besides, entered the north of 

 the county from Co. Wicklow, overrunning it in two directions until 

 their two forces met. Further they have colonised a new county — 

 Waterford — where they were reported to Barrett-Hamilton from 

 Faithlegg in 1896 by Ussher. Adding Tipperary, in many parts of 

 which they are plentiful, they are now in occupation of the whole 

 south-east of Ireland. About the year 1895 they were seen at Glass- 

 lough, Co. Fermanagh (James Brodie, Keeper, in lit., 30th January 

 1895), as well as at the Deeps (Col. C. S. Walker, in lit., 21st April 

 1896), and at Edermine (Sir J. Power, in lit., April 1898), the two latter 

 localities being in Wexford. By the same date they had quite overrun 

 Co. Meath (Rev. J. B. Gibson, in lit, 26th December 1895). They 

 have also appeared in the west, having been reported from Kerry 

 (Jenner, Field, 24th October 1908, 721), and there can be no doubt that 

 their presence may be confidently expected in the immediate future 

 in all the wooded parts of Ireland. 



Although Barrington could not have justifiably decided otherwise 

 on the evidence which he had before him, there are now available a 

 number of records pointing to the presence of the Squirrel as an 

 indigenous member of the Irish fauna in historical times, and thus 

 confirming the suggestion made previously by Harvie-Brown {op. cit., 

 p. 80). In the numerous lists of the exports of Ireland which have 

 now been published, and which date from the earliest times for 



