204 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
James Malone, telling her how his brother came 
home one night on horseback pursued by a pack of 
Wolves, who overtook him, and continued leaping on 
to the hind quarters of his horse till he reached his 
own door, crying out, ‘Oh! James, James ! my horse 
is ate with the Wolves.’ ” 
The precise date of this occurrence cannot now be 
fixed ; but it seems plain that Wolves existed in 
Kildare during the first quarter of the eighteenth 
century, and perhaps as late as 1721. 
To sum up. So far as can be now ascertained, it 
appears that the Wolf became extinct in England 
during the reign of Henry VII. ; that it survived in 
Scotland until 1743; and that the last of these animals 
was killed in Ireland, according to Richardson, in 
1770, or, according to Sir James Emerson Tennent, 
subsequently to 1766. 
In the foregoing observations, no reference has 
been made to ‘“ Were-wolves,” nor has any matter 
been introduced touching the fabulous or superstitious 
aspect of the Wolf's history in the British Islands. 
All such allusions have been purposely avoided, in 
order to confine the subject within reasonable limits. 
Before concluding, however, we may perhaps be 
excused for citing so respectable an authority as Sir 
Thomas Browne, who, in his ‘‘ Enquiries into Vulgar 
and Common Errors,’ has alluded to the popular 
notion that Wolves cannot live in England. 
In vol. au. p. 344, of his “Works” (Wilkii’s 
edition), he says:—‘“‘Thus because there are no 
Wolvesin England, nor have been observed for divers 
