<)2 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



iinmanem aprum, and that the heads upon the 

 banner were likewise boars' heads — tria aprorum 

 capita aurea. 



In the Highlands, the existence of the Wild Boar 

 is generally and familiarly remembered. Its names — 

 Fiadh-Chullach (genericallythe wild hog), Fiadh-Thorc 

 (the Sanglier or Wild Boar), Fiadh Mhuc (the Wild 

 Sow) — are still well known, and traces of its times 

 and locality are retained in tradition, ancient poetry, 

 and the names of many places denominated from its 

 haunts, as Slochd-Tuirc, the boar's den, Druim-ah- 

 Tuirc, the boar's ridge, and Beannan Tuirc, the boar's 

 mountain.* 



On the west side of Behin-glo, Perthshire, are two 

 places called " Carn-torey " and " Coire-torey " — i.e., 

 the hill and the hollow of Boars ; in the same county 

 is the Boar's Loch (Loch-an-tuirc).t Traces of 

 this animal have been found in Gordon parish, 

 Berwickshire, where land is said to have been 

 granted by William the Conqueror to one who 

 killed a certain Wild Boar which infested the 

 district.]: 



In Ireland swine existed, both in a wild and 

 domesticated state, from the very earhest times, and 

 have ever since contributed largely to the wealth of 

 the people. The Wild Boar {Tore fiadhain) abounded 

 in the woods, whitjh formerly covered a large portion 

 of the country, and fed upon the acorns and beech- 



* Stuart, " Lays of the Deer Forest," ii. p. 217. 

 + " Old Statist. Aoct. Scotland," vol. ii. p. 478. 

 X Ibid., vol. viii. p. 53. 



