MAMMALS. 



Mr. J. Colquhoun, while renting the shootings of Kinnaird in 1836, 

 found Squirrels were there and abundant. About fifteen years later 

 Mr. Colquhoun saw a large table-cover containing some two hundred 

 Squirrel skins shot at Taymouth. They had been killed there about 

 1848 and 1849. The Marchioness also had a stall at a bazaar in 

 Perth, and had about five hundred Squirrel skins for sale. 



But by 1879 it was reported to me that there was not one 

 Squirrel for a hundred there were formerly." Sixpence per tail 

 was paid at Stobhall during eighteen years, and about a hundred 

 were killed annually. 



Now they reached into Glen Dochart by 1839, but this may have 

 been by an extension from the south-east (p. 145), though it is 

 difficult to be altogether assured of this. Possibly both influences 

 had a bearing upon it (see argument at p. 146 of the monograph). 

 Shortly, my argument at that time, and I cannot arrive at more 

 definite conclusions now, was that it was as likely that the wave from 

 the south and south-east from the Dunkeld introduction had not 

 passed beyond Methven between 1812 and 1845 in the directions of 

 Crieff and Monzie, but had rolled on in greater force in a more north- 

 easterly direction, and that those Crieff and Monzie records apply 

 really to an offshoot of the Dalkeith army of occupation, indicating 

 perhaps the furthest extension that the Dalkeith and Minto army had 

 attained before mingling with the Dunkeld southern extension. 



The first in the Carse of Cowrie is given at 1822. Comparing 

 this date with the extension in Fife leads to the conclusion that 

 this arrival in the Carse of Cowrie was due to the earliest introduc- 

 tion at Dunkeld, rather than to the approach from the west round 

 the base of the Ochils, or to an approach round the bend of Tay 

 below Perth from the Fife side. 



In Forfar Don had no account of it in 1813. But in 1897, mis- 

 printed in original paper as 1817 (p. 148), a somewhat disturbing 

 influence comes to be recorded, viz. : In that year Captain Mackenzie 

 of Arbroath remembered that some of his crew brought over eight 

 or nine Squirrels in small cages about fifty years ago (say 1829), 

 and that some, he was sure, escaped about Arbroath; and he and 

 others tried to catch some of them in Guymel plantation (p. 148). 

 Whatever became of these few escapes, we have no information which 



