MAMMALS 
bucks at Naworth in the days when England 
was ruled by the Stuarts. So indispensable 
was a haunch of venison to public hospitality, 
that when the judges were entertained at the 
Carlisle Assizes in 1661, an entire buck was 
carted all the way from Millom to the scene 
of the banquet. The Fauna of Lakeland con- 
tains a digest of all that I have been able to 
bring to light about the fallow deer of this 
county. But it may be remarked that, while 
at Levens Park the milk-white deer, which 
occasionally appear in that dark herd, are per- 
fectly white when dropped and always re- 
main so, the white fallow deer which exist in 
the mixed herd at Edenhall are not pure white 
at birth, but a cinnamon-white, from which 
condition they pass to a pure white stage in a 
term of four or five years. 
Capreolus capreolus, Linn. 
35. Roe Deer. 
Bell—Capreolus caprea. 
The roe was once plentiful in the thickets 
of our forests, especially in the Naworth 
woods, whence a draught of no fewer than 
thirty-two kids was despatched in carts to 
London for Charles the First, in 1633. The 
price paid to those who had captured these 
young animals was about five shillings a kid. 
Six men and seven horses were required to 
convey them to the south. The kids were 
procured in the month of June. We are 
assured that a few roe deer still exist in the 
Naworth district, and others visit the Netherby 
estate from the Scottish borders. Single 
stragglers have been known to occur as far 
south as Penrith. 
CETACEA 
36. Sperm Whale. 
Linn. 
A sperm whale was cast ashore near Flimby 
on April 21st, 1840. It measured 58 feet 
in length and 26 feet in girth, as recorded in 
the Carlisle Patriot of April 24th, 1840. 
37. Bottle-nosed Whale. 
tratus, Miller. 
This cetacean has often visited our waters, 
and dead specimens have frequently been 
washed ashore by the tide; as for example in 
September, 1897, and August, 1887, when 
specimens were beached near Mowbray and 
Maryport. 
Physeter macrocephalus, 
Hyperoodon ros- 
38. Grampus. Orca gladiator, Bonnaterre. 
An occasional visitant to the channels of 
the Solway Firth, among which it is some- 
times left high and dry by the retiring tide. 
In July, 1874, six of these animals made 
their appearance in Silloth Bay, and one of 
them, an adult female, was stranded near 
Skinburness. I showed a tooth of this animal 
to the late Sir W. H. Flower. 
39. Pilot-whale, or Black Fish. 
melas, Traill. 
Locally, Bottle-nose. 
Herds of these animals occasionally appear 
Globicephalus 
off our coast, and in some instances they have 
been known to push their way up the Solway 
Firth as high as Silloth and Bowness, only to 
be stranded upon the flat sands, and buried 
by the coastguard service. A single example 
was found dead near Silloth in the autumn 
of 1898. 
40. Porpoise. Phocena communis, Lesson. 
Locally, Sea Pig, Sea Swine. 
These animals often endeavour to drive 
shoals of herring and other round fish into 
our inshore waters. I have watched them 
careering through the swell of the Solway 
Firth on many a wild morning ; but they 
rarely stay long in our partly land-locked 
waters, preferring to plough their way through 
the open main, unchecked by tortuous chan- 
nels or shifting sandbanks, 
41. Bottle-nosed Dolphin. 
Fabricius. 
Tursiops tursio, 
Bell—Delphinus tursio. 
A young example of this rather rare species 
was killed in the Esk near Longtown, on or 
about July 30th, 1896. We saw it imme- 
diately after, and had it photographed in the 
flesh. 
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