12 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
is lowland, its range is pretty sure to overlap the S.W. border; also 
through the greater part of Invernesshire, but not, I think, in the 
east-central part of the county—i.e., the neighbourhood of the 
Spey. I suppose it still exists in parts of Argyleshire, and in 
the S.W. corner of Aberdeenshire (Braemar district), but cannot 
personally answer for either county. It has disappeared long 
since from the Lower Speyside (Moray and Banff), and although 
it may cross the northern border of Perthshire, it certainly does 
not penetrate very far into that county.” 
Having thus sketched the general boundary lines of its present 
domains, I proceed under each county, —commencing in the South 
of Scotland,—to endeavour to trace the steps of its retrogression 
and dates of its extinction. 
Berwickshire and the Border Counties.—Mr. James Hardy, of 
Old Cambus, has exhausted the subject as regards Berwickshire 
and the Border Counties, in two papers contributed by him to 
the ‘Proceedings of the Berw. Nat. Club’ (vol. 1ii., pp. 357-59 ; 
vol. vii., pp. 246-50 (1874); and vol.ix., p. 15). He himself 
saw the last on record on the 17th March, 1849, near the 
Swallow Craig, not far from Old Cambus, on the coast of Ber- 
wickshire, where his father, more than forty years ago, “ used 
to see them when they were still numerous.” Mr. Hardy also 
mentions numerous other localities in the county of Berwick 
frequented by Wild Cats within the memory of people still or 
lately living.* In the second of his communications Mr. Hardy 
gives still further proof of its former occurrence, and refers to 
recent correspondence in the ‘ Kelso Chronicle,’ where he gives 
other evidence of its having been familiar to the country people. 
Evidence is also adduced from the names of many localities, t 
showing that they have formerly been associated with the native 
Wild Cat. Some of these are, ‘‘ Wulcat Yett,” near Jedburgh ; 
“ Cat-lee-burn,” in Southdean; ‘“ Cat-cleugh,” in Liddesdale; 
and others, both on the Scottish and English sides of the Border. 
We may remark here, while on the subject of topography, that 
names of localities occur, either in Scotch or Gaelic, called after 
Windylaw Cove; the woods above Pease Bridge; Penmanshiel Wood; near 
Blackie, &e. 
+ Ogle Burn; at The Sling, near the head of the Monynut Burn, there 
was a colony above forty years ago; Keilder, &c. (op. cit.) 
