MAMMALS. 



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the previous record, a specimen having been captured by Mr. J, 

 Ray Hardy "about four miles from Rannoch on the Pitlochry road 

 in June 1874." That example is now in the Owens College, Man- 

 chester. On applying to Mr. Hoyle of Owens College Museum, and 

 asking for any fuller particulars, that gentleman informed me it was 

 " obtained at Dall, in the Black Wood of Rannoch." This lies in the 

 opposite direction from Kinloch Rannoch (which I presume is what 

 is meant by "Rannoch " as quoted) and from "the Pitlochry road," 

 and thus, being about four miles from Rannoch, would give a locality 

 some eight miles further west. Mr. Hoyle also adds that "the 

 Rannoch specimen was probably taken in July 1865." Mr. Evans 

 quoted direct from information supplied by Mr. Ray Hardy himself, 

 but when I pressed this point, Mr. Hoyle wrote that he had inter- 

 viewed Mr. Ray Hardy also, and the latter, at such a distance of 

 time, could not feel quite certain of the exact locality, and advised 

 the acceptance of Dall as the true one. It may seem finical to insist 

 upon such a slight difference in the two accounts, but it might prove 

 of more importance than appears on the surface, because the char- 

 acters of the two localities are very different, Dall being within, or 

 close to, the old original Black Wood of Rannoch and amongst the 

 pines, and the Pitlochry road being mostly fringed with natural birch 

 and hardwoods. 



It may be worth mentioning that when driving past the policies 

 of Dunalastair on the 1st June 1905 one Bat was seen just about the 

 same place — four miles from Kinloch. An attempt to knock it down 

 with the driver's whip, however, failed. 



Order INSECTIVORA. 

 Family ERINACEID.^. 



Erinaceus europaeus, L. Hedgehog. 



The Hedgehog is mentioned in the old Statistical Account as occurring in 

 the parish of Clunie (vol. ix. p. 232), also in parish of Dowally 

 (vol. XX. p. 472), and it is stated to have begun to appear in Kin- 

 cardineshire in 1793, in the Agricultural Survey of that county. In 

 Pennant's time it does not appear to have been found beyond the Tay, 

 perhaps not beyond the Forth (1877), as quoted in Lightfoot's Flora 

 Scotica (vol. i. p. 13) ; but see old Statistical Account, as above (loc. cit., 

 1792, p. 13). 



In 1813,'however, Don spoke of it as formerly rare in Angusshire 

 (sic), " but of late years has appeared in tolerable plenty " (Headrick' 



