104 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



authority of Mr. A. B. Brooke, of Colebrook, Co. Fermanagh. 

 One killed by hhn in this county in March, 1870, measured 28 in. 

 from tip of nose to end of tail, and weighed 2 lbs. 12 oz. (Zool. 

 1870, p. 2282) ; this proved to be a doe with three young. 



King's County. — No records. 



Queen's County. — No records. 



Co. Carlow. — No records. 



Co. Kilkenny. — Sir B. Payne Gallwey, in his 'Fowler in 

 Ireland' (p. 326), mentions the woods of Desart in this county as 

 a former haunt of the Marten. 



Co. Wexford.— In 1876, as reported by Mr. R. Patterson, 

 at least four were killed at Stokestown ; and in 1881, a female 

 Marten and two young ones were taken at Oaklands. Mr. 

 C. B. Moffat, writing to ' The Irish Sportsman ' on June 4th, 

 1892, stated that the survival of the Marten in this county had 

 been conclusively proved by his friend Mr. Arthur Ruttledge, 

 of Coolbawn Cottage, near Killanne, Enniscorthy, who, on the 

 first of May, he says, " was fortunate enough to take in one of 

 his traps a handsome specimen, which he immediately forwarded 

 to the Zoological Gardens in Dublin. Mr. Ruttledge informed 

 me that this capture was quite accidental, there having been no 

 suspicion of such a creature's presence until it was found a 

 prisoner in a trap that had been set for rabbits. I consider 

 that this fact much enhances the interest of the capture* 

 suggesting as it does with what ease so wary and wild an animal 

 may exist (even in the vicinity of poultry-yards, sheep-folds, and 

 game-preserves) without attracting attention to its presence, 

 unless by such a mishap as has befallen Mr. Ruttledge's victim. 

 That relations of the captive Marten still haunt the woods 

 about Coolbawn and other places at no great distance cannot be 

 doubtful." 



To this communication the editor of * The Irish Sportsman ' 

 appended the following note : — 



11 There are several districts not far from the boundaries 

 of the County Wexford where the Marten still exists in some 

 numbers, and we believe that the animal in question was rather 

 a straggler to the Co. Wexford from one of these more favoured 

 localities than a resident in the county. It is said that the 

 Marten is an animal which is very readily trapped, and that if it 

 exists in a locality where rabbit'traps are used, it is certain to be 



