Marten 



903 



lands, and the merest beginning of a clearing about the settler's 

 home is enough to drive it away; consequently, it has always 

 been one of the first to retreat before civilization. It is found 

 in all the north-western half of the Province and on the Porcu- 



1 by E, T. S.. at Marvine, Colo., Sept. 19, 1901, 



pine. Duck, and Riding Mountains. J. S. Charleson got a 

 specimen from the Carberry spruce woods and D. Nicholson 

 heard of one or two on the Pembina Mountain in 1879, but 

 not since, nor was it ever common there, for Alexander Henry 

 records' from Park River in that same region, November 21, 

 1800, "They take a chance Marten, but the latter are very 

 scarce." This same traveller complains- that when he got to 

 Icelandic River, on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg, on 

 August 13, 1808, "The miserable country is destitute of large 

 animals. Martens only are numerous and there is no good 

 fishery." 



• Journal, 1897, p. 155. 



' Ibid., p. 452. 



