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immanent 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-an- 

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

 mountain.* 



On the west side of Benin -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. J 



In Ireland swine existed, both in a wild and 

 domesticated state, from the very earliest times, and 

 have ever since contributed largely to the wealth of 

 the people. The Wild Boar (Tore fiadhain) abounded 

 in the woods, which formerly covered a large portion 

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



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

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

 % Ibid., vol. viii. p. 53. 



