APPENDIX II. 



A LIST OF LOCALITIES 



WHERE WILD WHITE CATTLE OR THEIR DOMESTIC DESCENDANTS ARE PROVED TO HAVE 



EXISTED. 



In Scotland. 

 The Great Caledonian Wood. — Throughout ! the whole of this 

 the wild mountain bull ranged from the earliest times ; latterly 

 he only survived at the three following places : — ■ 

 Stirling. — King Robert Bruce hunted him here, tradition says, 

 about the year 1320, and wild cattle were still found ia this 

 neighbourhood in 1578. 

 Cumbernauld. — King James IY. hunted the wild cattle in the Forest 

 of Cumbernauld about the year 1500 ; they are mentioned by 

 historians in the years 1526 and 1578 ; they were the subject 

 of a State Paper in the year 1570, and did not become finally 

 extinct till the early part of the last century. 

 Kincardine. — They are noticed by Leslie as remaining here 

 in 1578. 

 Cadzow Park (Hamilton). — The wild cattle have been here from 

 time immemorial. They had a narrow escape from destruction 

 during the civil wars of the seventeenth century. This herd is 

 still existing. 

 Auchencruive (County of Ayr). — There was here a herd of wild 

 cattle, of unknown antiquity, the property of Lord Cathcart. 

 Charles, ninth baron, sold the estate in 1763 to Richard Oswald, 

 and the cattle were destroyed a few years later. 

 Ardrossan (County of Ayr). — Wild cattle were introduced aboiit 

 1750 by Alexander, tenth Earl of Eglinton ; they were de- 

 stroyed in 1820. 

 Drumlanrig Castle (County of Dumfries). — Here was a herd of 

 wild cattle of great and unknown antiquity ; it was destroyed 

 towards the close of the last century by William, fourth and 

 last Duke of Queensberry, of the Douglas family. 



