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Jedburgh meeting in September 1883, “a Wild Cat (F. catus) 
shot a few years ago at Wolflee,” was exhibited by Mr J T. 
S. Elliot; but I would ask,—Is there no likelihood of this 
having been a domestic cat run wild ? 
The “ Old Statistical Account” contains abundant evidence 
of the Wild Cat in Stirlingshire in the end of last century. In 
the “ New Statistical Account” of the county it is spoken of 
as extinct in 1842 in Campsie and Fintry, but as still existing 
in Strathblane, which, however, Mr Harvie-Brown is inclined 
to doubt (Zoologist, 1881, p. 15). Cat-craig and Catscleuch, 
near Denny, are mentioned as probable place-names in 
Stirlingshire. Passing to south-west Perthshire, there is no 
lack of evidence of its presence in many localities there during 
the first half of the present century; but I must refer my 
readers to Mr Harvie-Brown’s admirable paper for the 
details. Suffice it to say, that two were killed near 
Aberfoyle about 1855; that the last obtained in the Callander 
district was trapped in or about 1857 in the glen of 
Leny, and is still preserved at Leny House; that another was 
killed at Cromlix, Braes of Doune, in 1857 or 1858; that 
about 1850 one was killed at Gleneagles; that the keeper on 
Balquhidder killed Wild Cats about 1855; and that in the 
district south of Glendochart the last was killed upon Ben 
More, near Suie, in 1863 or 1864. 
A number of the places mentioned above are rather beyond 
the limits of this paper, but their bearing on the subject 
is sufficiently obvious, it is hoped, to justify the reference 
to them. 
CANIS VULPES JZ. Fox. 
Notwithstanding its predatory habits, the Fox is still fairly 
numerous, being allowed in most parts of the district a large 
amount of immunity from indiscriminate persecution in order 
that it may be hunted with hound and horn in orthodox 
fashion ; otherwise, we may well suppose, it would have 
shared the fate of the other larger Carnivora, and long ere this 
have been practically banished from the lowlands. In the 
words of the writer of the article on the Fox in the Badminton 
Library (“ Hunting,” p. 63), “hunted he must be; if he is to 
