84 ‘THE ZOOLOGIS'r. 
set for rabbits in the extensive woods on the slopes of the East 
Lomond Hill, in Fifeshire, on the Falkland Estate, by one of the 
gamekeepers. It was sent to me by Mr. James Lugton, the then 
headkeeper there. He had not seen or heard of any animal like 
it before in that neighbourhood, and he had been keeper there for 
many years.” Mr. Cook is of opinion that it was a wanderer 
from the Perthshire highlands in search of a mate. ‘‘ However, 
the woods where he was caught are very extensive, and it is just 
possible he may have been the last of his race.” Since this male 
was obtained, however, another was killed in 1873 at Broomhall, 
near Dunfermline, the seat of Lord Elgin, by Mr. Stark, game- 
keeper. This specimen was also a male. 
Perthshire.—None have been met with during the past thirty 
years, or since 1850, in the valley of the Allan between Perth and 
Stirling. It is not remembered as existing in the neighbourhood 
of Leny, Callander, but is quoted in the ‘Old Statistical Account’ 
(vol. xi., 1794, p. 598). Of late years, however, Martens have 
reappeared in that district and in the neighbouring forest of Glen- 
artney, and other parts of S.W. Perthshire. Mr. Arthur §. Stark 
writes me that he “saw a Pine Marten in the wood behind 
Callander in the beginning of June, 1879.” He adds :—‘“‘ I was 
standing with my back against a tree watching some Cole Tits, 
when I noticed it hunting about, and, as it ran backwards and 
forwards not more than half a gunshot from me, I could make it 
out very distinctly with my binoculars. ‘The chest-patch was 
very distinct.” In Glenartney also one was killed so lately 
as February, 1879, on Drummond Castle Estate; and Mr. John 
Colquhoun heard that two were seen in the scrub-wood skirting 
the base of Ben Vorlich three years ago (say 1877). The last 
killed to the south of Glendochart was in 1871, on Suie property, 
by Mr. Macpherson, gamekeeper. It was considered by the 
people—natives of Glenartney—to have been extinct for thirty- 
five years at least, when the above one in 1879 was obtained. 
Mr. Duncan M‘Gregor, who has been twenty-two years gamekeeper 
in the Glen of the Ruchil, in Glenartney, writes me concerning 
the above specimen :—‘‘In March, 1879, however, one of Lord 
Aveland’s men, going along the river (Ruchil), near the waterfall 
below Dalclathic Bridge, got one in his traps. It was bought by 
D. Rose, game-dealer in Crieff, for stuffing. No person can say 
how it came to this glen. My opinion is that, owing to the 
