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caves and rock-shelters of the district, and who have left to us the well- 
known works of primitive art sculptured on bone and reindeer-antler. 
M. Gaudry’s observations thus tend to confirm the opinion of the late 
M. Paul Gervais, that an engraving found by M. Piette in the Cave of 
Gourdon, in the Haute Garonne, really represents the head of the Saiga 
Antelope, copied from the living creature.-—‘ The Academy,’ 5th April, 1879. 
Marrens In Norrotk anp Surrotx.—I am desirous of adding a few 
supplementary remarks to Mr. Norgate’s notice (p. 172) of the Marten 
which was trapped at Hevingham, Norfolk, in the summer of 1878. ‘The 
animal passed into the hands of Mr. T. E. Gunn, birdstuffer, Norwich, 
who was good enough to allow me to see it very soon after he had mounted 
it in July last. It was a large male specimen of the Yellow-breasted or 
Pine Marten, and showed no traces of having been kept in confinement ; 
so that, if it had escaped from captivity, it had probably been at large long 
enough to have lost any signs of previous imprisonment. That this speci- 
men was au escaped one is rendered probable by the considerable length of 
time which had elapsed since any previous specimen of the Marten had 
been known to have occurred in Norfolk. An old warrener, named 
Brighton, who died in 1862, at the age of ninety-eight, told me that, when 
he was a boy, Marten-cats inhabited Brooke Wood, in Norfolk, where he 
was then employed, which may probably be accepted as a proof of their 
existence in the county about the end of the last century. Some fifty 
years ago, I recollect seeing a stuffed Marten in the possession of the late 
Mr. Postle, of Colney Hall, Norwich, and, if my memory does not deceive 
me, I was told that it was a Norfolk specimen. Later than this I cannot 
trace any Martens in Norfolk, until the occurrence of the Hevingham 
specimen last year; but a curious record of as many as forty-three Martens 
having been killed by a gamekeeper in Suffolk (together with a long list of 
other so-called vermin) in the year 1811, has been published in the 
‘ Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist’s Society’ (vol. ii., 
pp- 223-4), to which I would refer for further particulars. Unfortunately 
the exact locality in Suffolk where this occurred is not now known.— 
J. H. Guryey (Northrepps, Norwich). 
RaBBits SwIMMINc.—We saw rather an amusivg thing to-day (18th 
April). We caught a very little rabbit in a hedge, and let it go near the 
moat. It instantly set off towards the moat and jumped in. We rushed 
up, expecting to find it drowning, but found it had got more than half 
way across the moat. As soon as it reached the other side it got on to the 
bank and into a hole-—Procrrer 8. Hurcurnson (Inval, Haslemere). 
[Rabbits when pursued will sometimes take to the water and swim boldly. 
One pursued by a dog leaped into the Cam at one of its greatest widths, and 
Was swimming across, when a boat put off and captured it.—Eb.] 
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