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MAMMALS. 



I do not know who receives the greatest number of heads of 

 Perthshire Deer for preservation, but Mr. Malloch has a good many 

 sent to him ; and he has given me some particulars of such as he 

 received in the years 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896. Looking over 

 that register which he kindly placed at my disposal, I find that in 

 1883 he got in 56 heads or trophies to preserve, of which 3 were 

 royals. The dates given were those on which he received them, and 

 are of little value for purposes of recording. In 1884 he got in 40, 

 of which none were royals, and none over ten points. In 1895 he 

 had 29, of which again none were royals, but there were 4 of eleven 

 points. In 1896 there were 44, of which 6 were royals. In 1897 

 there were 6 of eleven points. And in 1898 there were 11 of ten 

 points. 



In the north-east parts of our area, formerly, the forest of Alyth 

 was wholly stocked with Deer, but at the time of the agricultural 

 survey they had been "banished from our Grampians, though in 

 hard winters a few stragglers come down the glens from the remote 

 mountains." 



Glen Artne}^ has now been fenced {i.e. between 1872 and the 

 present time, say 1904, or about thirty- two years) ; but this does 

 not prevent them always from breaking out over the fencing during 

 storms of snow, when the drifts often reach nearly to the top of the 

 seven-foot fence. 



About 1870 a solitary Stag was seen several times as far south as 

 the Darritch Hill (on my own property, and one of that portion of 

 the central hills of Stirlingshire known as the Denny Hills), but I 

 never heard of its capture. 



IRanffiTer tacantiu^. Kemlieer. 



I find it difficult to discover any new matter since Mr. J. E. Harting 

 published his very exhaustive monograph upon British Extinct 

 Animals, etc. Therein will be found almost every item of information 

 regarding its occurrence in Scotland before, or evidence afforded by 

 its remains after, it became extinct. In his monograph he refers most 

 fully to all that previous writers had recorded. It is only right 

 here, however, to refer direct to some of those who had worked out 

 these records before, and then simply give a short abstract to pre- 

 serve continuity. Dr. J. A. Smith had written a very full account 

 of these records relating to Scotland (Froc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. viii. 

 pp. 186-223), from which and other sources Mr. Harting drew a 



