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heard Mr. Dempster remark, when we were beating the 
woods for them, that there was only another estate in 
Scotland where they were to be found going about in a wild 
state, and that was somewhere in Perthshire, if I remember 
rightly. I don't think they are so numerous now as 
then." 
Fallow-deer were introduced at Eosehall in the winter 
of 1876 or spring of 1877. Buckley was there, and saw 
them turned out at midnight. Since then they have in- 
creased but little, the two late hard winters having killed 
off numbers. Their heads are miserable, and they have 
rapidly deteriorated of late years. 
58. Capreolus caprea, {Gray.) Roe-Deer. 
Common in all suitable localities, and increasing in number 
since planting became more general. The late severe 
winters put a check, however, on their increase, but they 
seem again to have in great measure recovered. Even in 
the isolated birch-woods of the interior of the county roe 
are found, but they rarely increase, even when not killed, 
in such situations. 
Abundant at Berriedale and Langwell, but does not appear to 
extend to any part of the less-wooded areas. 
Family BOVID^. 
59. Bos taurus, i. Wild White Cattle. 
Order RODENTIA. 
Family SCIURIDiE. 
60. Sciurus vulgaris, L. Squirrel. 
Once present in Sutherland (cf. Sir E. Gordon's Earldom of 
