1 80 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



and gave him the land called Sean-achan for meal to 

 his dogs." 



Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, in his " Account of the 

 Moray Floods of August, 1829," tells the story of 

 the Wolf killed in that district by MacQueen of 

 Pall-a-chrocain, but lays the scene of the exploit in 

 the parish of Moy, in the county of Inverness, which, 

 although within the bounds of the ancient province 

 of Moray, is far beyond the present limits of the 

 forest of Tarnaway. 



Sir Thomas gives the very words which MacQueen 

 is said to have used in describing to the chief of 

 Macintosh how he killed the wolf: "As I came 

 through the slochh (i.e., ravine) by east the hill 

 there," said he, as if talking of some everyday occur- 

 rence, " I foregathered wi' the beast. My long dog 

 there turned him. I buckled wi' him, and dirkit 

 him, and syne whuttled his craig (i.e., ^cut his 

 throat), and brought awa' his countenance for fear he 

 might come alive again, for they are very precarious 

 creatures.^' In reward for his bravery, his chief 

 is said to have bestowed on him a gift of the lands of 

 Sean-achan "to yield meal for his good greyhounds in 

 all time coming." Sir Thomas Lauder has preserved 

 another tradition of. the extirpation of the Wolf in 

 Morayshire, when two old Wolves and their cubs were 

 killed by one man in a ravine under the Knock of 

 Braemory, near the source of the Burn of Newton. 



In the old " Statistical Account of Scotland," 

 edited by Sir John Sinclair, and published in 

 twenty-one volumes between the years 1791 and 



