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parish and shire of Dumfries, and "Wolfstan," in> 

 the parish of Pencaitland, East Lothian.* 



Craigmaddie, " the rock of the Wolf," in the parish 

 of Baldernock, and Stronachon, "the ridge of the 

 dog," in the parish of Dry men, point by their name 

 to localities in Stirlingshire which were formerly the 

 haunts of the Wolf. 



Mr. Hardy states (/. c.) that on the farm of Gods- 

 croft a cairn, now removed, was called " Wolf-camp."" 

 It may have been a Wolf s den, or perhaps an ancient 

 " meet " of the Wolf-hunters who were summoned by 

 the sheriff in the days of the early Kings James. 



He adds that in 1/69 there was a farm called 

 "Burnbrae" and "Wolfland" in the parish of 

 Nenthorn belonging to Kerr of Fowberry. The 

 name seems to imply that it had been held in former 

 times by the tenure of hunting the Wolf; lands thus 

 granted being called " Wolf-hunt lands," as already 

 remarked under the head of the Wolf in England. 



In 1756 BufFon was assured by Lord Morton, then 

 President of the Royal Society, " a Scotsman worthy 

 of the greatest credit and respect, and proprietor of 

 large territories in that country," that Wolves still 

 existed in Scotland at that date. 



William Smellie, the translator and editor of 

 Buffon's " Natural History," thus comments on this 

 statement (vol. iv. p. 210, note, 3rd edit., 1791): "We 

 are fully disposed to give due weight to an authority 

 so respectable and so worthy of credit ; but we are 

 convinced that the Count has misapprehended his. 



* Hardy, "Proc. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club," 1861, p. 289. 



