Report from Chris Smith
Lioness-like animal seen twice
From 'Eyewitness Accounts' in Cat Country, The Quest for the British Big Catby Di Francis, David and Charles, 1983
12 th November 1979, Maryburgh, Ross-shire
At about midday on 12 November, a railway trackman came face to face with a lioness on the railway track 9 miles from Dingwall on the Garve track. The animal seems to have been as unnerved by the encounter as the man. It bounded over a fence and disappeared into woodland.
On the same day at about 5.00 pm a large cat-like animal was reported in the woodland at Milnafua, Alness, 16 miles from where the railway worker sighted the lioness..
12 th November 1979
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