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hence also Broxburn, the principal village in the parish. 
The Rev. Professor Duns informs me that when he went 
to reside at Torphichen in 1844, there were still a few in 
that neighbourhood, and that he has a skin yet which he then 
obtained. Lochcote was a habitat at that time, or even later, 
as I learn from the son of a former keeper there. Mr S. 
Martin, for many years keeper at Hopetoun, writes me 
(October 1891) that to the best of his recollection Badgers 
were killed there about twelve or fifteen years ago; and 
Mr Small, taxidermist, Edinburgh, tells me that prior to 
1875 or 1876 he frequently had Badgers to stuff from 
Linlithgowshire. One, which I saw in Mr Small’s shop, 
was killed on 29th September 1887, at the Witch-craig, 
by the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire foxhounds. In the 
summer of 1881 the Earl of Rosebery had a pair sent from 
the south of England and liberated in Dalmeny Park, but 
both are supposed to have wandered and been killed. In 
1889, as I am informed by Mr Bruce Campbell, three others, 
also from the south of England, were introduced into the 
grounds at Dalmeny, where they have bred, and seem now to 
be fairly established. I saw their earth recently (April 1891), 
and was told that four of the animals were seen near it a_ 
short time before. 
The hilly districts of Stirlingshire, on the Forth and Clyde 
watershed, would seem at one time to have been quite a 
stronghold of beasts of prey, including “ two species of Badger, 
. the one somewhat resembling a sow, the other a dog”! 
(“ Old Statistical Account,” Campsie, xv., p. 322); and the 
abundance of the animal in Doune (on the north side of the 
valley) and the neighbouring parishes has already been cited 
(p. 88). Brocks-brae, in the parish of St Ninian’s, is a 
Stirlingshire place-name, As might be expected, a few still 
exist in the mountainous country at the head of the Forth 
valley. On 17th April 1889, I examined a fine male from 
the neighbourhood of Callander, and a little farther off, in the 
braes of Balquhidder, one was trapped last winter. 
Fife, like the other counties, had its Badgers at one time 
too, but they must have been rooted out many years since. 
In the days of my father’s boyhood, some sixty years ago, 
