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the latter of which the last succumbed about thirty-seven years 

 ago. From Mr R. Inglis, keeper, Tyiiinghame, I learn that 

 about forty years ago he knew of two litters on that estate 

 in each of two or three successive seasons, " but they were 

 never allowed to live long." The last was killed there 

 twenty-one years ago, and he is not aware of any having 

 been seen since. There are places, however, in Binning 

 Wood, where they may well have lingered some years longer. 

 In May 1881 a hole once frequented by them in the grounds 

 at Belton was pointed out to the members of the Berwick- 

 shire Naturalists' Club, and Dr Hardy was told that they 

 were then preserved in Pressmennan woods, and retained 

 a privileged home at Newbyth (Club's "Proc," ix., 427). The 

 latter part of this statement is not corroborated, however, by 

 the Newbyth keeper, of whom I have made inquiries. He 

 has been seventeen years on the estate, and has not known 

 of a Badger on it during that time. Pressmennan woods, 

 on the other hand, not only were, but I have good reason to 

 believe still are tenanted. In 1862 I saw one alive in East 

 Linton, which had just been brought in from the Biel estate, 

 of which Pressmennan is a part; and Mr G. Muirhead 

 tells me he has a specimen which was captured at Salton in 

 the spring of 1868. On the confines of East Lothian and 

 Berwickshire, as well as throughout the latter county, 

 they had many haunts, and in few districts have more 

 places been named after it. We have, for instance, the 

 Brock or Spott water, near Dunbar ; the Brock-holes, a bank 

 below Thurston Mains; Brockhole farm, on the Eye; etc. 

 {vide "Proceedings" of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 ix., pp. 17, 215, 222). Proceeding up the valley of the 

 Tweed, we find it in Lauderdale even at the present time. 

 It was stated to be still common at Legerwood in 1880 

 {op. cit., ix., p. 242). During the last five or six years I have 



