448 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Scotland it is still found, though comparatively rarely, in the 
Lews and in most of the Highland mainland counties, being 
perhaps most abundant in Sutherland and Ross-shire, especially 
in the deer-forests. In the Lowlands a Marten is now a very 
great rarity; but a fine example was killed in Ayrshire in the 
winter of 1875-76. Inthe North of England, Mr. W. A. Durnford 
says, the species is ‘still plentiful’ in the wilder parts of Cum- 
berland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire;* and in Lincolnshire 
several have been recorded, the latest, killed in 1865, by Mr. 
Cordeaux.t In Norfolk one was shot last year;{ and I have 
myself examined a fine example, which was shot in Hertfordshire, 
within twenty miles of London, in December, 1872. In Dorset- 
shire the last is said to have been killed in 1804 ;§ but a specimen 
occurred in Hampshire about forty years ago;|| and another in 
Surrey in 1847. A Marten is said, by the Rev. C. A. Bury, to 
have been ‘seen’ in the Isle of Wight;{[ and one was recorded 
from Cornwall, by Mr. E. Hearle Rodd;** but this proves on 
investigation to be an error, the specimen having been brought 
from North Wales, where Martens appear to be still not very 
rare. In Ireland the following counties were enumerated by 
Thompson as habitats of this species :—Donegal, Londonderry, 
Antrim, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh, Longford, Galway, Tipperary, 
Cork, and Kerry.t+ ‘The Cat-crann is probably now a rarer 
animal in Ireland than it was when Thompson wrote; but it still 
exists in various districts, especially in the County Kerry, whence 
the Society has received several living examples; and Professor 
A. Leith Adams states that it has been seen of late years even in 
the County Dublin.” tf 
* ‘ Zoologist,’ 1877, pp. 291. [See also Parker, Zool. 1879, p. 171.] 
+ *Zoologist,’ 1866, p.242. [Not quite the latest; others have since been 
recorded; Zool. 1877, p 251, and 1879, p. 420.—Ep.] 
t F. Norgate, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1879, p. 172; J. H. Gurney, tom. cit. p, 210, 
§ J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, tom. cit., p. 171. 
|| P. L. Sclater, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1845, p. 1018. 
q ‘ Zoologist,’ 1844, p. 783. 
** Td., 1878, p. 127. 
++ ‘Natural Histery of Ireland,’ iv. p. 9. 
tt ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society of Dublin,’ 1878. 
