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all the localities where I know it is still found, the object of these 
records being more to show the minutie of its past than of its 
present distribution, a general idea of the latter being sufficient 
for all practical purposes of the paper. North of the Caledonian 
Canal it is still common. Im the deer-forests it is in a 
measure preserved, and not indiscriminately trapped. It is, 
however, becoming scarce in the neighbourhood of Fort Augustus. 
Had it not been for the deer-forests they would ere this have 
been extinct in the North of Scotland. One was killed at the 
last-named locality in 1877, or “about three years ago,” and 
another thirteen or fourteen years ago (say 1866) by the keeper 
on Lord Lovat’s ground. It is considered rare at Beatly now, 
and generally in the east of the county. Only five have been 
taken on Struy since 1874. At Guisachan they were formerly 
common; five or six were trapped there annually up to 1870; 
since then they have become of rare occurrence. Alexander 
M‘Gillivray trapped one at Plodda, one mile and a half from 
Guisachan House, in December, 1875. The last one obtained 
was trapped by Rory M‘Gillivray in January, 1878, at Knockfin, 
two miles distant. These two specimens are white-breasted and 
yellow-breasted, and have been preserved, and are now in the 
gun-room at Guisachan. I am obliged to Sir Dudley Marjori- 
banks, Bart., for kindly putting the above notes at my disposal. 
Since the above was penned, I have been informed that two were 
taken in April, 1880. 
Rosshire—To Mr. Osgood H. Mackenzie, of Kinloch Ewe, 
I am much indebted for interesting notes on the Marten in 
Rosshire, of which the following is an extract. The last Marten 
killed in Mr. Mackenzie’s district was on his own property 
twenty-five years ago (say 1855). He writes as follows :—‘‘ They 
had a most curious home on my ground, which is still called 
‘Clach more nan Taghan’ (‘the big stone of the Marten,’) or, 
as my English friends call it, ‘Castle Marten.’ It is a carried 
boulder about ten feet high. The Martens had been killing sheep, 
and a fox-hunter having been sent for, day after day the track of 
the Marten was lost by the hounds always near this boulder. At 
last it was found that the Martens jumped from the ground on 
to a ledge in the side of the boulder, and had their young ones 
in a mass of peat on the top, which was perforated with their 
holes. They were dug out of this and killed. About eighteen or 
