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or more Martens ; but as their habitat was in a wild place, a long 

 way from our lodge, we did not often set the traps. I wrote the 

 other day to the agent of the property to enquire if he could 

 procure me some young ones alive ; but he replied that they have 

 no keepers there now, and no trapping appliances, so I should say 

 that Martens in that country are as plentiful, if not more nume- 

 rous, than they were at the time to which I allude — some fifteen 

 years ago." 



Co. Cork. — According to Dr. R. Ball, the Marten has been 

 met with near Youghal, and Dr. Harvey, in his ' Fauna of Cork,' 

 mentions Barry's Court, Dunmanaway, and the woods near 

 Bandon, as localities in which it has also occurred. 



Co. Waterford. — About 1850, according to Mr. Ussher, three 

 blind newly-born Martens were taken in the roof of a summer- 

 house at Cappagh, and the mother was subsequently caught. 

 Another was taken the same year at Colligan, and a pair occupied 

 the thatch of a summer-house at Meadborough. 



CONNAUGHT. 



Co. Mayo. — Mr. W. C. Horsfall, writing from Tourmakeady, 

 Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, in April, 1874, stated that in his woods, 

 about twelve miles from Castlebar, he had known several instances 

 of the occurrence of the Marten (' The Field,' April 11th, 1874) ; 

 and Mr. W. Garnett, in 1882, reported its occurrence at Castlebar. 

 Sir Wm. Wilde, as above noted (p. 100), has testified to its former 

 abundance about Ballykyne, near Cong. 



Co. Sligo. — There is a specimen in the Belfast Museum which 

 was received from Hazlewood, in this county, in 1845 ; and 

 several have been killed near Sligo, two in 1887 (one in May, 

 the other in August), and another in Nov., 1888. Col. Whyte 

 also has furnished independent testimony as to the occurrence 

 of the Marten in this county. On June 10th, 1876, he published 

 the following remarks in ' The Field ' : — " I often see lamenta- 

 tions over the destruction of wild animals, and the Marten Cat 

 mentioned as one that is almost extinct. About a fortnight since, 

 the keeper on a distant mountain reported to me that he had 

 found the feathers of several Grouse, destroyed by vermin. I 

 gave him half-a-dozen traps, and desired him to bring me the 

 animals or their skins. I received to-day (June 5th) the eleventh 

 Marten Cat, some of them being of immense size. Now, as this 



