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and was preserved for Mr. Hibbert, the innkeeper there (Cordeaux, 

 Zool. 1880, p. 239). In ' The Zoologist' for 1866 (p. 242), Mr. 

 Cordeaux reported the capture of a Marten for the second time 

 in the parish of Kiby. A third was shot in a wood of 500 acres, 

 known as South Wood, on the estate of Mr. Thomas Drake, of 

 Stainfield Hall, near Wragby, in the winter of 1871-72, as noticed 

 by Kev. A. P. Morres (Zool. 1877, p. 251) ; and a fourth was 

 trapped in a wood near Appleby Hall, Brigg, in Sept. 1879, as 

 announced by Mr. Charles Winn (Zool. 1879, p. 420). The same 

 year one was taken on the estate of Mr. Heneage, at Hainton, 

 near Wragby (Cordeaux, Zool. 1880, p. 240). The Kev. W. W. 

 Fowler, of Lincoln, in June, 1882, announced that he had seen a 

 Pine Marten which had been trapped only a few weeks previously 

 near Bardney (Zool. 1882, p. 230). This is believed to be the 

 latest met with in Lincolnshire. 



Leicestershire. — According to Harley, the Marten in this 

 county has been met with in the wood at Gopsall, and on Lord 

 Howe's estate, on the western side of the county. There is an 

 old specimen in the Leicester Museum, supposed to be from 

 Wellsborough, and another at Bradgate House, reported to have 

 been killed in that neighbourhood many years ago. Mr. E. 

 Widdowson heard that one was killed at Stapleford, but did not 

 see it (Zool. 1885, p. 165). 



Norfolk. — Messrs. Paget, in their ' Sketch of the Nat. Hist, 

 of Yarmouth,' published in 1834, note the Marten as having been 

 found formerly at Herringfleet and Toft ; but then (1834) regarded 

 as extremely rare. Mr. Gurney was informed by an old woodman 

 that "Marten Cats " were found in Brooke Wood, near Norwich, 

 during the latter part of the last century (Southwell, Zool. 1871, 

 p. 2754). The late Bev. H. T. Frere, of Burston Bectory, Diss, 

 reported (Zool. 1883, p. 75) that in 1843 a Marten was seen 

 throughout the summer at Gissing, in this county. In 1864 an old 

 female Marten was trapped on Kelling Heath by a keeper of Capt. 

 Bird (Zool. 1882, p. 146) ; it was stuffed by Travis, of Saffron 

 Walden. In a footnote to his edition of Lubbock's 'Fauna of 

 Norfolk,' 1879 (p. 4), Mr. Southwell states that one was trapped 

 in a wood near Heydon, in July, 1878, and was sent to Mr. 

 T. E. Gunn, of Norwich, for preservation. This subsequently 

 proved to have been taken at Hevingham, as recorded by Mr. F. 

 Norgate (Zool. 1879, p. 171). Mr. Southwell is of opinion that 



