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as extinct in 1842 in Fintry and Campsie parishes, but as still 
existing in Strathblane, but such a statement is open to con- 
siderable doubt. Two Wild Cats were presented to the Hunterian- 
Museum in Glasgow by the late Duke of Montrose, which were 
killed on his property, and these are still in the said collection. 
Mr. John Young informs me that there are no documents nor 
information in the Museum throwing any light upon the date 
when they were sent there. ‘“Ishould say,’ continues Mr. Young, 
“that they must have been sent some forty or fifty years ago. 
I have been here some twenty-one years, and when I came to the 
Museum they looked nearly as old skins as they do now.” ‘Cat 
Craig” and ‘‘Catscleugh,” near Denny, may, amongst other names 
of places, indicate its former presence. 
Clackmannan and South Perth (isolated), Fife and Kinross.— 
Information from Kinross is entirely negative, and no records 
have been kept of the last killed, so far as I have been able to 
ascertain. 
Perthshire.—The Wild Cat, formerly abundant throughout this 
county, has now become extremely rare, if not altogether extinct, 
except in the most remote and mountainous districts. Throughout 
the whole of the county south of a line drawn from the Firth of 
Tay through Perth, and thence to Loch Earn and Tyndrum, it 
must be considered extinct. One was killed at Dupplin Castle 
about 1852 by Mr. William Pitcaithley, jun., at Irvine Cottage. 
The last killed in the district south of Glen Dochart was by 
Malcolm Macpherson, upon Ben More, near Suie, in 1863 or 1864. 
It has been extinct for quite thirty years in the Valley of the Allan, 
and between Perth and Stirling. One was killed about that time 
(say 1850) on the East Hill at Gleneagles, by Mr. Anderson, game- 
keeper; it was worried by his dogs. The last obtained in the 
Callander district was trapped in, or about, 1857, in the Glen of 
Leny, and is now preserved in the hall of Leny House. Another 
was seen by Mr.J. B. Hamilton, of Leny, about 1827 or 1828, 
which was killed in the same place. The keeper on Balquhidder 
“killed Wild Cats, amongst other vermin, about twenty-five 
years ago (say 1855), but they are extinct now.” None have 
occurred for many years on the Braes of Doune, and it appears to 
be unknown in the Methven, Crieff, and Lyndoch distrtict. For 
more than forty years none have been seen around Blairgany, in 
the Callander district. At Cromlix, Braes of Doune, the last 
