6 MAMMALIA, 
county; and there is good reason to believe that it lingered 
longer in Yorkshire than elsewhere in England, and as 
late as the reign of Henry VII. ‘There is documentary 
evidence of the existence of wolves at Flixton-on-the- 
Wolds in the time of Athelstan, at Roche Abbey in 1186, 
at Bolton in Wharfedale in 1306, and at Whitby in 1369. 
Evidence less precise but equally credible proves that 
they inhabited Knaresborough and Galtres Forests; Lang- 
with, near York; Marske, in Swaledale; and various places 
in South Yorkshire, as Woolley, Dodworth, Silkstone, 
Aughton, Ulley, and Slade Hooton. Local legends in 
which the wolf plays a prominent part are related for 
Sittenham, in the Forest of Galtres; for John o’ Gaunt’s 
Inn, near Rothwell; and for Howley Hall, near Batley. 
Bones have been found in caves at Kirkdale and Dowka- 
bottom, as well as in river deposits. 
22. Canis vulpes Z. Fox. 
Generally distributed and abundant, though less numerous 
on the western or hilly side of the county. Religiously 
preserved for purposes of sport, numerous packs of hounds, 
some of them dating back for centuries, being maintained. 
Section ARCTOIDEA. 
Fam. MUSTELIDZ. 
23. Martes sylvestris JVidss. Marten. 
Extremely scarce, and restricted to one or two localities ; 
formerly abundant, and generally distributed. The 
decrease in its numbers appears to have been compara- 
tively rapid; the evidence in my possession concurs in 
showing that about the commencement of the present 
century the marten was common in many districts; while 
during the past thirty years its occurrence has been quite 
exceptional and unlooked for. The only instances in 
which it has occurred of late are:—Lees Head, near 
Whitby, one, fifteen or twenty years ago (Stephenson, MS.), 
and another in 1877 (Land and Water, p. 224); Cannon 
Hall Park, Barnsley, about 1878 (T. Lister, MS.); and 
Buckden, Wharfedale, winter of 1880 (Bishop, MS.). 
[Martes foina (Z7x/.). The Pine Marten has been removed 
from the British list by the late Mr. E. R. Alston, who con- 
sidered that all British-killed martens are referable to JZ 
sylvestris, | 
