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men Mr. Williams is stuffing for me was caught on Glencar 

 mountain. I believe they also frequent Glenode and Glengariffe, 

 and I have known one to be killed by a terrier, quite close to 

 this town, in the open fields." 



Co. Gal way. — Capt. J. J. Dunne has met with the Marten in 

 this county. The Hon. L. G. Dillon, of Clonbrock, Ahascough, 

 writes (Feb. 9th, 1892): — "A * Pine Marten' was shot here, I 

 believe, long ago, but I have heard of several being killed in 

 other parts of the country lately. Sir William Gregory, of Coole, 

 near Gort, has a coat trimmed with the fur of some killed quite 

 lately in his woods." Vide also G. H. K.'s notes under Co. Clare. 



The above rough notes, combined with the Editor's statistics, 

 leave only the counties of Monaghan, Cavan, Louth, Limerick, 

 and Roscommon, absolutely without records, though the pre- 

 tensions of some few other counties to include the Marten in 

 their fauna are somewhat slender. It must be remembered that 

 much of Ireland is now open, and unsuited to the habits of the 

 Marten. 



I regret very much that I have been unable to make this 

 article more complete. I have numerous other notes on the 

 Marten, on which I cannot now lay my hands, and a good many 

 references to records of its occurrence in Ireland, which have 

 from time to time appeared in ' The Field.' 



I will conclude by giving an extract from a law still in force 

 in Ireland, which shows how common Martens were in that 

 country a hundred years ago, insomuch that the reward for 

 killing either an Otter or a Marten was the same. By the 27th 

 George III. chap. 35, it was enacted, amongst other things, 

 " That from and after the 1st day of July, 1787, any person or 

 persons who shall take, kill or destroy otters, martens, weazels, 

 rats, cormorants, kites or magpies, shall receive for every otter 

 or marten, 5s. ; for every weasel, Is. ; for every cormorant or 

 kite, 6d. ; for every magpie, 3d. ; and for every rat, Id." 



Mr. Robert Patterson, of Malone Park, Belfast, sends the 

 following corrections and additions for Ulster :■— 



Co. Donegal. — -Thompson says, "J. V. Stewart notes the 

 yellow-breasted Marten in his catalogue of the mammalia of this 



