MAMMALS. 



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great part of his information, as is fully acknowledged by him. By 

 referring to Dr. J. A. Smith's admirable account, I simply indicate the 

 information given by all previous writers, at least as regards Scottish 

 remains. Others who have contributed to the literature of the 

 Reindeer in Scotland are many, amongst whom may be mentioned 

 Dr. Joass {Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot, vol. vi. p. 386) ; Neill (Mem. Wern. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. iii. p. 214) ; Geikie (Trans. Geol. Soc. Glas., vol. i. 

 p. 71, 1863); Hibbert ("On the Question of the Existence of the 

 Reindeer during the Twelfth Century in Caithness, etc." — Brewster'' s 

 Edin. Journal of Science, New Series, vol. v. p. 50) ; and Alston 

 (Fauna of Scotland, "Mammalia," p. 36, 1880). 



But in all these records Tay has little claim to discoveries, and 

 my task in this direction is comparatively easy. 



Neill (as above referred to) gives the following account : " When 

 the Loch of Marlee, in the parish of Kinloch, Perthshire, had been 

 partly drained for the sake of the marl, some very interesting 

 remains came to light, amongst others the skeleton of a beaver, 

 and a pair of horns and some leg-bones of a Reindeer " ; and these, 

 as Mr. Harting says, are no doubt the same which are referred to in 

 the old Statistical Account (vol. xvii. p. 478) as having been found in 

 Mr. Farquharson's marl-pit at Marlee, which were at the time sur- 

 mised to belong to the Elk (Harting, op. cit, p. 69). 



Attempts at re-introduction have not been successful, though at 

 one time there seems to have been good reason to believe that the 

 Reindeer was more abundant in Britain than the Red Deer. 



There is an early account of the bringing over from Drontheim 

 in Norway and landing at Leith of sixty-six Reindeer, as given in 

 the Scots Magazine (New Series, vol. xi. p. 258) for August 1822. The 

 old Statistical Account tells the tale how the Duke of Atholl intro- 

 duced Reindeer at Dunkeld. Sir Matthew White Ridley brought 

 them to Britain also. Fourteen were brought to Dunkeld at 

 different times, but these introductions proved unsuccessful. Boyd 

 Dawkins has told us that the Reindeer probably survived as late as 

 A.D. 1159. 



rvus dama, L. Fallow Deer. 



Not indigenous. About the end of the eighteenth century, as stated 

 in the Agriculture of the County of Perth, " the only Fallow Deer in 

 the whole county are at Blair Atholl and Taymouth" (loc. cit., p. 330). 

 In 1812 Walker in his Essays speaks of the " menalled Deer," or 



