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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. 11). 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 (1890-91). 



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, they had not ceased to exist in the woods at 

 Dysart. Mr Gilmour of Montrave writes me that a Badger 

 was got in Wemyss woods some years back, but he thinks 

 it was an escaped one ; and from Mr Charles Cook I learn 

 that another was caught on Benarty hill " some few years " 

 prior to 1880. 



