BEAVERS AND THEIR WAYS. 2738 
through Wales in 1188, tells us that the Beaver was found in 
the River Teivi in Cardiganshire, and gives a curious account of 
its habits, derived apparently from his own observation. There 
is some reason for supposing that there were other rivers in 
Wales besides the Teivi which were frequented by the Beaver, 
as I have pointed out more fully in my ‘ Extinct British Animals’ 
(pp. 36-39); and Boethius, the Scottish historian, writing in 
1526, enumerates the Beaver amongst the wild animals found 
about Loch Ness. It is to be regretted that the written records 
which we have of its former occurrence in Great Britain are so 
few and fragmentary, but abundant evidence of its former 
existence in this country at a date long anterior to these 
historical notices is supplied by the remains of the animal 
which have been exhumed in various places both in England 
and Scotland.* 
Many places in England seem to indicate by their names the 
ancient haunts of this animal; such, for instance, are Beverley 
in Yorkshire, Beverage in Worcestershire, Bevercotes in Notting- 
hamshire, Beverstone in Gloucestershire, and Beversbrook in 
Wiltshire. 
In Ireland the Beaver was not only unknown in historical 
times, but there is no evidence of its having been found there in 
a fossil state. t 
In Hotuanp, according to Streso, a Dutch writer, the Beaver 
was killed for food in the time of the Crusades, and he repeats 
the old story that, being an amphibious animal, its tail and paws 
were allowed to be eaten on fast-days. 
According to Baron Dunoyer de Noirmont, the last Beavers 
were killed in Holland in 1825. 
France.—Although no author of antiquity makes any special 
mention of the Beavers of Gaul, in default of other evidence the 
names of several rivers and different localities in France suffi- 
ciently testify to the fact of its having been once locally abundant 
there. 
* ¢Hxtinet British Animals,’ pp. 42, 43. 
+ See Leith Adams, ‘On Recent and Extinct Irish Mammals,” Proce. 
Roy. Dublin Soc., 1878. 
{| Amongst others, for example, the following are mentioned by Baron 
Dunoyer de Noirmont in his excellent ‘Histoire de la Chasse en France’ 
(tom ii. pp. 112, 113): the river and village of Bievre, in the environs of 
Paris; another river Bicvre, in the Departement de la Meurthe ; Bievre, in 
