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they had not ceased to exist in the woods at Dysart. Mr 
Gilmour of Montrave writes me that a Badger was got in 
Wemyss woods some years ago, but he thinks it was an 
escaped one. One was caught on Benarty hill “some few 
years” prior to 1880 (Letter from Mr C. Cook). 
MUSTELA MARTES Z. PINE MARTEN. 
Once common, and with practically the same distribution 
as the Wild Cat, the Marten seems to have been extirpated 
as a resident species in the district even earlier than that 
animal; but, being apparently more given to wander, it has 
since turned up at wide intervals in localities from which it 
had long disappeared as a resident. Now, however, that it is 
being daily driven farther and farther into the Highlands, the 
chances of such stragglers reaching us are becoming more and 
more remote. 
To Dr Hardy, of Oldcambus, we are indebted for bringing 
together what little is known of the occurrence of the Marten 
in the south-eastern part of the district, and I think I cannot 
do better than quote his remarks as printed in the Proceedings 
of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. viii., page 527 :—“ In 
the Statistical Account of the united parishes of Cockburns- 
path and Oldcambus, p. 299, prepared in December 1834, 
the Rev. Andrew Baird reports that the Marten (Martes 
Fagorwm) is said, a good number of years ago, to have 
inhabited the woods near the Pease Bridge. Till lately, [ 
had supposed that this hearsay had originated from some 
traditions of the Wild Cats that once made those woods their 
rendezvous; but now I think its correctness is undoubted, as 
Mr Peter Cowe, of Lochton, has an actual specimen of the 
Marten to show, and had heard of another in the very locality 
that I had questioned. The one preserved in Mr Cowe’s 
collection, he writes of date 27th March 1879, ‘was caught 
in Dowlaw dean in 1862 in a rabbit-trap, I had it alive for 
a week, but it would not eat. A short time, say a few weeks, 
after, another was caught about the Pease Bridge, but was 
destroyed before I heard of its capture.’ Mr Kelly records 
that a Marten was trapped in 1848 in Lauderdale, by Mr 
