BRITISH MAMMALS 
THE REINDEER. 
Rangifer larandus, Linnaeus. 
The number of horns of the Reindeer found in marl and peat deposits 
prove the abundance of this species in the British Islands in pre-historic 
times, and for long afterwards it lingered in Caithness and the Orkneys. 
From a passage in the Orkneyinga Saga, it appears to have been 
regularly hunted in the mountains of Caithness by the jarls of Orkney, who 
in summer crossed to the mainland for this purpose (Harting). 
There is a good figure of the animal incised in an ancient monumental 
stone near Grantown. 
THE WILD BOAR. 
Sus scrofa, Linnaeus. 
The Wild Boar was a common beast of the forest inhabiting Britain in 
early times, and is frequently mentioned in the laws and in books on 
hunting of those days. 
It is said to have been still plentiful in the reign of Henry VIII., 
though when it actually became extinct in England is uncertain. 
Like the Wolf, the Wild Boar has left traces of his presence in the 
names of many places in the British Islands, showing how common he must 
have been at one time. 
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