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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; ete. 
(vide Berw. Club Proc., ix., pp. 17, 215, 222). Proceeding up 
the valley of the Tweed, we find it in Lauderdale even at the 
present time. During the last five or six years I have 
examined in the flesh about a dozen from within the water- 
shed of the Tweed, most of them having been captured in the 
neighbourhood of Lauder, and two in Selkirkshire. In the 
parish of Heriot they were present in the days of the “Old 
Statistical Account” (xvi., p. 51); and in the north-west of 
Peeblesshire one was killed at Halmyre dean about ten years 
ago, as I am informed by Mr T. G. Laidlaw; while on the 
Dolphinton estate a full-grown female—the third got there 
during the last two or three years—was captured on 18th 
April 1890, as recorded by Mr Charles Cook in the Scottish 
Naturalist for January last, page 36. 
_ The rough braes of many a Linlithgowshire stream, covered 
as they then would be with natural wood and bracken, were 
doubtless in former times also the chosen abode of the Brock; 
indeed this is rendered certain as regards one section of the 
county at any rate, by the fact that the parish of Uphall was 
formerly called “Strathbrok” (“Old Stat. Ace.,” vi., 543) ; 
1 Still common at Legerwood in 1880 (Proc, Berw. Nat. Club, ix., 242). 
