92 EXTINCL BRITISH ANIMALS. 
~nmanem aprum, and that the heads upon the 
banner were likewise boars’ heads—tria aprorum 
capita aured. 
In the Highlands, the existence of the Wild Boar 
is generally and familiarly remembered. Its names— 
Iadh-Chullach (generically the wild hog), ’iadh-Thore 
(the Sanger or Wild Boar), Fiadh Mhuc (the Wild 
Sow)—are still well known, and traces of its times 
and locality are retained in tradition, ancient poetry, 
and the names of many places denominated from its 
haunts, as Slochd-Tuirc, the boar’s den, Druim-an- 
Tuirc, the boar’s ridge, and Beannan Tuire, the boar’s 
mountain.” 
On the west side of Benin-glo, Perthshire, are two 
places called ‘“‘ Carn-torey ” and ‘‘ Coire-torey ’—1.e., 
the hill and the hollow of Boars; in the same county 
is the Boars Loch (Loch-an-tuire).t| Traces of 
this animal have been found in Gordon parish, 
Berwickshire, where land is said to have been 
granted by William the Conqueror to one who 
killed a certain Wild Boar which infested the 
district. { 
In Iveland swine existed, both in a wild and 
domesticated state, from the very earliest times, and 
have ever since contributed largely to the wealth of 
the people. The Wild Boar (Tore fiadhain) abounded 
in the woods, which formerly covered a large portion 
of the country, and fed upon the acorns and beech- 
* Stuart, “ Lays of the Deer Forest,” ii. p. 217. 
t “Old Statist. Acct. Scotland,” vol. i. p. 478. 
£ Ibid., vol. viii. p. 53. 
