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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 

 Scott, which was the only example known there for half-a- 

 century. It was stuffed by Walter Simson, Lauder. This 

 furnishes us with four Berwickshire instances of the 

 animal." 



For the rest of the district I have practically nothing to 

 add to what is recorded in Mr Harvie-Brown's article on the 

 species contributed to the "Zoologist" for 1881, p. 81. In 

 the " Old Statistical Account " it is mentioned as occurring 

 among the rocks on the Campsie Fells (vol. xv., p. 323), 

 and in the neighbourhood of Callander (vol. xi., p. 598); and 

 in 1838 MacGillivray described a specimen from Lanarkshire 

 (" British Quadrupeds," p. 168). Since then examples have 

 turned up unexpectedly in a number of places. Thus on 

 10th May 1870 a very fine male, which I had the pleasure 

 of exhibiting at the meeting of the Eoyal Physical Society 

 in April 1891, on behalf of its owner, Mr Charles Cook, 

 was caught in an ordinary rabbit-trap on the wooded slopes 

 of the East Lomond hill, near Falkland, Fife; and in the 

 summer of 1873 another male was trapped in the woods 

 at Broomhall, near Dunfermline, in the same county, by Mr 

 Stark, gamekeeper there, in whose hands I have recently 

 seen it. In the beginning of June 1879, Dr A. C. Stark 

 had an excellent view of one in the fir wood behind Callander, 

 as he informed me shortly afterwards ; and in February of 

 the same year one was killed in Glenartney. In April 1880 

 one which was killed in Balquhidder on the 2nd of the 

 month, was exhibited at a meeting of the Eoyal Physical 

 Society; and, so recently as August 1888, another (a male) 

 was caught on Urie estate, near Stonehaven ("Scotsman," 

 1st September 1888). 



