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near Dalegarth, in Eskdale. On April 2nd, 1880, Mr. C. A. 

 Parker, of Gosforth, received an old female Marten which 

 had been trapped by a gamekeeper at the head of Miterdale, 

 a little valley running up towards Burnmoor, one of the 

 loneliest and wildest parts of the district (Zool. 1880, p. 219). 

 Early in November, 1881, a Marten was killed by Mr. Benson's 

 foxhounds on Carlinot, one of the high fells between Lowes- 

 water and Ennerdale. He stated that he had not killed more 

 than six during the previous seventeen years during which 

 he had kept hounds. A fortnight later, however, a second was 

 killed and eaten by his pack ; and a third was seen near the same 

 place (Zool. 1882, p. 108). About the middle of January, 1882, 

 one was seen at the head of Borrowdale. And in October, 1887, 

 I received one which had just been killed in Wastdale, and which 

 I have had preserved. From this specimen a sketch was made 

 by Mr. G. E. Lodge for the plate which appeared in the last 

 number of ' The Zoologist.' 



Westmoreland. — One was caught by a farmer in the Fairfield 

 Valley, near Ambleside, 1877 (H. G. Tomlinson). 



Durham. — About 1835, one was trapped in Stanley Wood; and 

 on August 14th, 1849, a nest containing three young Martens was 

 found in North Carr Wood, near Bishop Auckland (Zool. 1849, 

 p. 2588). Mr. W. Backhouse had two specimens of the Marten 

 which were killed some years prior to 1864 at St. John's, Weardale 

 (Mennell & Perkins, Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Club, vol. vi. 

 p. 125). On May 31st, 1882, one was trapped at Hoppyland, 

 about seven or eight miles west of Bishop Auckland (Nelson, 

 Zool. 1882, p. 304). 



Yorkshire. — In the winter of 1833, according to Mr. Hindson, 

 a Marten was killed by W. Marshall, the gardener to Mr. John 

 Foster, of Clapham. Others have been shot or trapped at Deep- 

 dale-in-Craven (where one shot in a rookery in the act of seizing 

 a young rook in the nest) ; in Kaydale, and in Kexby Woods, 

 near York (Fothergill, 'Naturalist/ 1854, p. 145; * The Field/ 

 Oct. 1, 1881 ; and Zool. 1884, p. 174). One, killed at Lees Head, 

 near Whitby, March, 1877, is preserved in the Whitby Museum ; 

 and the following year, Mr. T. Lister, of Barnsley, noted the 

 occurrence of a Marten at Canon Hall Park, near that town. In 

 Mid-west Yorkshire, one was killed at Buckden-in-Wharfedale in 

 the winter of 1880 (' Naturalist,' 1891, p. 135). Messrs. Clarke & 



