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  made 
  enquiries 
  respecting 
  it 
  of 
  persons 
  qualified 
  to 
  give 
  

   correct 
  information. 
  Mr. 
  Cumming 
  had 
  neither 
  seen 
  nor 
  

   heard 
  of 
  it, 
  nor 
  had 
  any 
  other 
  individual 
  of 
  whom 
  I 
  asked." 
  

  

  In 
  1859 
  I 
  made 
  my 
  first 
  acquaintance 
  with 
  the 
  Squirrel 
  

   in 
  the 
  Yalley 
  of 
  Cromar, 
  Deeside. 
  At 
  that 
  time 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  

   scarce 
  ; 
  but 
  during 
  the 
  two 
  subsequent 
  years 
  it 
  became 
  

   much 
  more 
  abundant, 
  since 
  then 
  it 
  poured 
  in 
  and 
  increased 
  

   enormously, 
  extending 
  its 
  range 
  year 
  by 
  year, 
  until 
  now, 
  

   1903, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  plantation 
  over 
  the 
  whole 
  extent 
  of 
  " 
  Dee" 
  

   in 
  which 
  the 
  Squirrel 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  seen. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Alex. 
  Cruickshank 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  saw 
  Squirrels 
  

   in 
  the 
  woods 
  of 
  Dunnottar 
  in 
  1847. 
  This 
  was 
  in 
  answer 
  to 
  

   the 
  question 
  often 
  asked, 
  " 
  Where 
  did 
  the 
  Squirrels 
  come 
  

   from 
  that 
  made 
  so 
  sudden 
  an 
  appearance 
  on 
  Deeside?" 
  

   Evidently 
  they 
  come 
  from 
  Dunnottar, 
  say, 
  to 
  Glen 
  Dye, 
  thence 
  

   their 
  march 
  was 
  easy 
  into 
  Deeside 
  ; 
  or 
  they 
  may 
  have 
  kept 
  

   up 
  the 
  south 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Dee 
  until 
  Glen 
  Tanner 
  was 
  

   reached, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  more 
  likely, 
  seeing 
  they 
  were 
  known 
  

   about 
  Cromar, 
  Ballater, 
  and 
  Braemar 
  before 
  they 
  were 
  

   known 
  further 
  down 
  the 
  Dee 
  about 
  Banchory. 
  Still 
  the 
  

   Squirrel 
  was 
  common 
  about 
  Beauty, 
  north-west 
  of 
  Inverness, 
  

   and 
  in 
  the 
  woods 
  on 
  the 
  Lovat 
  estates 
  in 
  1855, 
  at 
  which 
  

   time 
  I 
  saw 
  them 
  daily. 
  

  

  MacGillivray's 
  not 
  having 
  heard 
  of 
  the 
  Squirrel 
  at 
  

   Braemar 
  may 
  be 
  accounted 
  for 
  in 
  this 
  way. 
  By 
  the 
  country 
  

   people 
  it 
  was 
  known 
  by 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Ferret, 
  Futteret, 
  and 
  

   Fumart, 
  and 
  any 
  enquiry 
  regarding 
  it 
  under 
  its 
  proper 
  name 
  

   would 
  not 
  be 
  understood. 
  

  

  Family 
  MURID^l. 
  

   Genus 
  MUS. 
  

   Mus 
  minutus, 
  Pallas. 
  Harvest 
  Mouse. 
  

  

  The 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Stewart 
  Burnett 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  found 
  

   in 
  the 
  avenue 
  at 
  Kemnay 
  House, 
  in 
  1889, 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  

   Harvest 
  Mouse, 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  he 
  had 
  ever 
  seen 
  in 
  Aberdeen- 
  

   shire. 
  There 
  is 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  Banff 
  Museum, 
  which 
  is 
  said 
  

   to 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  at 
  Greenskares, 
  Gardenstown 
  (northern 
  

   edge 
  of 
  " 
  Dee 
  "). 
  

  

  MacGillivray, 
  in 
  his 
  History 
  of 
  British 
  Quadrupeds, 
  p. 
  257, 
  

  

  