86 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
On Mornish, Loch Tay side, adjoining Remony, one Marten 
is included in the list of vermin killed in 1868. I have to 
thank Mr. D. Dewar for this list of vermin, which presents 
many interesting facts in connection with the past and present 
numbers of some of our indigenous animals. In another list of 
vermin killed on Remony and Claggan Hill, between 1849 and 
1855, no Martens are included, nor Polecats nor Wild Cats. As 
has already been seen, however, the Marten is not quite extinct 
in Perthshire. Dr. MacIntosh, of Murthly, writes me :—‘‘ One 
is occasionally seen making its way from the steep and wooded 
slope above the river to the asylum grounds. It was first observed 
last year” (1879). Ihad fully chronicled the reported occurrence 
of a Marten at Rednock, in S.W. Perthshire, as given in the 
papers, and reiterated by the person himself who caught the 
animal, now more generally known locally as “the Rednock 
beast”; but certain descriptions which reached me causing me 
grave doubts, I applied for corroborative evidence to various 
friends living in the district. After actually seeing it, all agreed 
that “the Rednock beast” was a common “coon,” and none 
could imagine how it came to be designated a Marten. Whence 
this racoon came, no one appears able to say, but from the fine 
condition and sleekness of the beast it must have been at large 
some time. 
Forfarshire.—During the last twenty-five years only two have 
been killed in the county, and these two about the year 1860, the 
one on Stracathro Estate, the other on Dun estate, male and 
female. ‘The distance between the two estates is four miles. My 
informant, Mr. J. B. Smart, adds :—“ It was thought that it was 
the severity of the weather that had driven the Marten-cats so 
far south, as none had been heard of for a long time previously 
anywhere in the county. They are believed to be extinct now in 
the county.” 
Argyleshire-—In this county Martens are becoming scarce. 
They were stated in 1792 to be extinct in Sunart, and “not so 
frequent as formerly” in Kilmorich and Loch Goilhead.* On 
Loch Awe-side the last killed were male and female, between Taigh- 
achregain (Taycreggan) and Taynuilt, in 1871. They are still to 
be met with, however, in Glen Etive, Glencoe, and the Black 
* ‘Old Statistical Account,’ vol. iii., p. 176, 
