MAMMALS. 



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^U2( gcrofa. Mli'lti Soar. 



While its existence all over the Highlands was well known, and its 

 distribution very general, we must look principally for evidence to 

 the many indications of its presence in the place-names which are 

 scattered all over our area, of which it seems only necessary to 

 allude to a few, thus : Carn Torey, Loch an tuirck, etc. 



Scrope instances an attempt to re-introduce them at Marr Lodge 

 (Dee), but the want of acorns — says Scrope — their favourite food 

 rendered it abortive. 



Order RUMINANTIA. 

 Family CERVID-ffi, 



Cervus elaphus, X. Red Deer. 



At one time Red Deer must have been of very general distribution 

 both in Highland and Lowland situations, because even down in the 

 Carse stretches of Gowrie remains have been found in the " Forest 

 Bed " (see Dr. Buchanan White in the Proc. Perth. Soc. Xat. Hist., 

 vol. i. p. 117, and Scot. Xat., vol. i. part iv. 1883-4). 



The old Statistical Account tells us : "It does not often happen in 

 Scotland that Deer are lost in snow, but an instance is related of a 

 herd being smothered in a wreath in AthoU" {oj). cit., vol. ii. p. 199, 

 1794). The same old work estimates the number of Deer in the 

 forest of Glen Artney at between two and three hundred head 

 {op. cit., vol. xi. p. 181). At that time, as also at the present time. 

 Deer passed over from the forest of Glen Finlas to that of Glen Artney 

 at Aney {i.e. a-n-eih=th.e deers' ford), a name often found in other 

 parts of afforested ground in the Highlands of Scotland. At the 

 present time the forest of Glen Artney holds about a thousand head 

 of Deer. 



In 1813 Don mentions Red Deer as found sometimes in the Clova 

 Mountains, "but rare," and also in the wood of the Forest Moor, 

 near Forfar. 



Great increase of Deer took place in Atholl after the Duke began 

 to protect them there, where a tract of a hundred thousand acres 

 was devoted to their use. It was computed that four thousand fed 

 there annually (Barclay, Contra Monarchamachos, pp. 81-2 : v. old 

 Statistical Account, vol. xx. p. 470). 



