A History of British Quadrupeds Including the Cetacea
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One was killed in December, 1817, at Caolas Stocnis, on the east coast of Harris, and was examined by the late Mr. Macgillivray, who gave an account of it in vol. XVII. Of the " Naturalist's Library "; it was about ten feet in length, with tusks of eight and a half inches. A second was shot in June, 1825, on the island of Edday, Orkney, by one of the shepherds of Mr. Laing of Papdale ; it was recorded by Mr. R. Scarth, in the " Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine " for that year, and its head was ...sent to the Edinburgh College Museum. Messrs. Baikie and Heddle state that another Walrus made its appearance in Hoy Sound in 1827, but it was not captured. One was killed in April, 1841, on the East Heiskar, near Harris, by Capt. McDonald, R. N. , as mentioned by Dr. R. Brown, in the " Annals and Magazine " for 1871 ; and in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society " for 1868, Dr. Brown remarks : "I know of one that was seen in Orkney in 1857, and another, the Shetland fishermen told me, had been seen in the Nor' Isles about the same time.
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