SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
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In connection with the map which illustrates this Fauna, it 
may be well for our readers to consult a very useful map in colours 
of the county of Caithness, contained in the last-mentioned work, 
which depicts the various areas of different soils and the characters 
of the different descriptions of country. 
Caithness and Part of Orkney. T. S. Muir. Privately printed. N.D. 
A History of the Earldom of Sutherkmd, to the year 1630. Sir 
Robert Gordon, Bart. First published in 1813, giving a curious 
account, often before quoted, of the Ferm Naturae which roamed 
through the great old forests of those days. 
Account of Peterhead. Arbuthnot. 1815. This is what the author 
calls "A Nat. Hist, of the Fishes found on the Coasts of Buchan," 
which is not of much importance, but may be mentioned. 
An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Staford, 
etc. etc., and on the Estate of Sutherland. James Loch, Esquire. 
London. Svo. . 1820. 
Mamiscrijits of the Rev. Mr. Macdonald of Durness. 7 large thick 8vo 
volumes. 1 
Twenty-one Annual Reports of the Sutherland Association to date of 
1885 — the last three in our possession. The earlier Reports con- 
sidered as valueless from our point of view, but the later ones 
containing items of some interest, the most important being the 
announcement of the Society's intention to publish a series of 
Sutherland Papers, of which Dr. Pococke's Tour in Sutherland is 
one ; others are The Geology of Sutherland, by H. M. Cadell ; 
The History of Sidherland ; The Folk-Lore of Sutherland. 
British Quadrupeds. W. Macgillivray. (Naturalist's Lib., vol. xvii.) 1833. 
On the Quadrwpeds and Birds inhabiting the County of Sutherland. 
P. J. Selby and Sir W. Jardine, Bart. {Edin. New Phil. Journal, 
January and April 1836.) 
A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. James Wilson. 
Edinburgh. 2 vols. 8vo. 1842. 
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xv., relating to Sutherland, 
and published in 1845. 
The Neiv Statistical Accouiit of Scotland (1841). Contains even less of 
interest than the Old Statistical Account ; but the original list of 
^ Not seen by lis up to date of going to press. 
