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common in most parts of Great Britain and Treland, Though 
commonly called “ Pine Marten,” it does not appear to have any 
special preference for coniferous trees, except that, inasmuch as 
they constitute the greater proportion of the forests of the countries 
which it inhabits, it is more often met with in them than in any 
other. With regd to its recent oceurrence in the British Isles, 
Mr. Alston writes in the Prac, Zool, Soe, 1879 :— 
“Although greatly reduced in numbers by perseettion, it still 
maintains its ground in the wilder districts of Scothud, the north 
of England, Wales, and Ireland; and occasionally specimens are 
killed in countios where the species was thought to lave heen long 
oxtinet. In Seotland it is still found, though comparatively rarely, 
in the Lows 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 fino example was killed in Ayrshire in the winter of 
1875-76. In the north of England Mr. W. A. Durnford says. the 
species is still plentiful in the wilder parts of Cumberland, West- 
moreland, and Laneashire, and in’ Lineolushire several have been 
recorded, the latest killed in 1865, by Mr. Cordeaux. In Norfolk 
one was shot last year; and [ have myself examined a fine 
oxumple which was shot in’ Elertfordshire, within 20 miles of 
London, in Decomber E872. In Dorsetshire the lust is said) to 
have been killed in 1804; but a specimen occurred in Lhanpshire 
about forty years ago, and another in Survey in VS47. 0 In Preland 
the following counties were enumerated by Thompson as habitats 
of thix species: Donogal, Londonderry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, 
Fermanagh, Longford, Galway, Tipperary, Cork, and Kerry. The 
Cal-crann is probably now a rarer animal in Ireland than it was 
when Thompson wrote; but it still exists ino various districts, 
especially in County Kerry, whenee the society has received several 
living examples ; and Professor A. Leith Adams states that it has 
been seen of late years even in county Dublin.” 
AL cibetling, the Sable (Geman, Zobel and Zebel Swedish, 
sibel. Tuassian, sobel, a word probably of Puranian origin).— Closely 
resembling the last, if indeed differing from it except in the quality 
of the fur, which is the most highly valued of that of all the group. 
Found chilly in Mastern Siberia. 
A flaviquia, the Indian Marten.—Inhabits the southern slopes 
of ,the Himalaya, the Nilgiri Hills, the interior of Ceylon, the 
Malay Peninsula, aud Java, ‘The coloration of this species is very 
striking, the upper parts being blackish-brown, and the throat: 
and breast yellow or orange, tn the bright coloured variety. 1b 
differs from the other species in having the soles of the feet more 
ov legs naked, 
AP. ielenpas.-— Japan. 
