170 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Sed horum genus deletum et ex insula eaterminatum 
esi.’’* 
Pennant states that the Wolf became extinct in 
Scotland in 1680, when the last of the race was 
slain by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel.t He adds 
that he had travelled “into almost every corner of 
that country, but could not learn that there remained 
even the memory of these animals among the oldest 
people.’’t 
From more recent investigation, however, it is 
clear that Sir Robert Sibbald and Pennant were 
both mistaken, for not only were Wolves slain 
in Scotland subsequently to 1680, but numerous 
traditions concerning these animals survived in 
the country to at least as recent a date as 1848. 
Traditions—In a Gaelic forest lay “of a remote 
period, the date and author of which are uncertain,” 
the Wolf is thus referred to as inhabiting the ancient 
pine woods of Scotland :— 
“Chi mi Sgorr-eild’ air bruaich a’ ghlinn’ 
An goir a’ chuthag gu-binn an dos. 
°Us gorm mheall-aild’ nam mile guibhas 
Nan l%b, nan earba, ’s nan lon.”’ 
*“T see the ridge of hinds, the steep of the sloping glen 
The wood of cuckoos at its foot, 
The blue height of a thousand pines, 
Of wolves, and roes, and elks.§ 
* “Scotia Ilustrata, sive Prodromus Historiz Naturalis,” folio, 
1684, pars ll. p. 9. 
+ Surtees gives the date of the death of the last Wolf in Scotland as 
1682. “History and Antiquities of the County of Durham,’’vol. ii. p. 172. 
~ “British Zoology,” vol. i. p. 88; and “Tour in Scotland,” 
vol. i. p. 206. 
§ From ‘The Aged Bard’s Wish,’ given in Stuart’s “ Lays of the 
Deer Forest,” 11. p. 9. 
