MAMMALS. 
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Hog (Sus scrofa). 
Dog (Canis familiar is) (fossilis ?). 
Fox (Canis vulpes). 
Wolf {Canis lupus), doubtful. 
Eabbit (Zepus cuniculus), perhaps recent. 
Grampus (Delphimis orca), or small whale ? 
Dolphin (Belphinus dolphis), or some other small cetacean ? 
EXISTING MAMMALIA. 
For Existing Mammalia our materials are somewhat scanty. 
Mr. E. I. Shearer wrote a few articles in the John o' Groat 
Journal, the first and second only of which we have seen. These 
treat of the polecat and weasel, and are the first, and perhaps the 
only, articles of the series, and bear the date of 1871. 
The Old Statistical Account of Scotland. 
The Neio Statistical Account of Scotland. In this a fairly 
complete list of the Mammals of the parish of Wick is given, 
dating 1845. 
" A List of Vermin killed in Sutherland and on the Sandside 
and Langwell estates in Caithness between the years 1818 and 
1827." This includes foxes, wild-cats, martens, polecats, etc., and 
will be found published in extenso in the Appendix. 
We are also much indebted to Mr. William Eeid, of Wick, for- 
his excellent ms. notes on Mammals, — most ungrudgingly, and in 
the spirit of a true naturalist, — placed unconditionally at our 
disposal, which we have incorporated in the text. 
In the arrangement of our list of species, we have for the most 
part followed that of Messrs. Clarke and Eoebuck's Vertebrate 
Fauna of Yorkshire, this seeming to us the most convenient, as 
it shows at a glance every known British species, and those 
amongst them that occur in our district. 
