THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. V.] MARCH, 1881. [No. 51. 
THE PAST AND PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF SOME OF 
THE RARER ANIMALS OF SCOTLAND.« 
By J. A. Harvin-Brown, F.Z.S, 
Il. Tue Marten. 
Accorp1nG to the statistics at my disposal the Marten appears 
to be of rarer occurrence now than the Wild Cat, being extinct 
in many localities still frequented by the latter species, but 
curiously enough it seems to have survived over a wider area 
up to a later date. In other words, whilst the Wild Cat has 
retreated, and is only found now beyond the lines traced in 
my account of that species (p. 11), and was forced beyond them 
not later than 1875 (when one was got in Glen Tanar, Aberdeen- 
shire), the Marten is still found at localities south and east of this 
line, or has been found at later dates. Thus, it is still not 
uncommon in Rothiemurchus, and it is not yet extinct in the 
Valley of the Tay, whilst one was killed as lately as 1879 in 
Glenartney (Perthshire), and in 1874 at Culzean, in Ayrshire— 
localities amongst others which have long been deserted by the 
Wild Cat. This will become more evident when the particulars 
of its retrogression are pointed out. It is not, however, always 
easy to decide whether the Marten can be considered as extinct 
in any given locality, because it is often found after long intervals 
frequenting localities which were famous for their numbers 
* Continued from p. 23. 
