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Duke of Norfolk's gamekeepers. It turned up at a sale at 

 Peppering, near Arundel, on Aug. 26th, 1891, but who became 

 the purchaser I have not ascertained. The last Marten believed 

 to have been seen in this county was killed by the Crawley and 

 Horsham foxhounds at Holmbush, near Crawley, five and twenty 

 years ago. It was stuffed by Leadbeater, of Brewer Street, 

 London, for Mr. Borrer, of Cowfold, in whose collection I have 

 seen it, with four others from Brecknockshire, Scotland, and 

 Ireland. It was subsequently, however, destroyed by moth, and 

 only the skull is now preserved. 



Hampshire. — Mr. Edward Hart, of Christchurch, writes word 

 that he is unable to cite any instance of the occurrence of the 

 Pine Marten in his part of the country within the memory of 

 the oldest inhabitant, although he has often questioned the old 

 keepers and woodmen whom he has met. Nevertheless there is a 

 stuffed specimen, as I learn from Mr. Kelsall, in the Alton Museum, 

 which was killed at Hackwood, near Basingstoke, some five and 

 forty years ago. Perhaps this is the specimen referred to by 

 Mr. Sclater (Zool. 1845, p. 1018) as having been killed near 

 Odiham, which is only a few miles from Hackwood. Since the 

 date referred to, but previous to 1857, a Marten was procured at 

 Cadlands, in the New Forest, and, as I learn from Mr. Kelsall, 

 is preserved in the possession of the Bev. B. E. Harrison, Bector 

 of Droxford. 



Isle of Wight. — Writing of the Mammalia met with in the 

 Isle of Wight (Zool. 1844, p. 783), the Bev. C. A. Bury included 

 the Marten, on the strength of one seen in the rocky wilderness 

 at the Undercliff. It was closely approached by the Bev. J. F. 

 Dawson, who was near enough to perceive "the deep yellow 

 tinge of the throat." He adds that the track of a Marten was 

 subsequently observed in the snow. See Venables' ' Guide to 

 the Isle of Wight,' p. 411. 



Wiltshire. — " Upon the disafforestations, the marterns were 

 utterly destroyed in North Wilts. It is a pretty little beast, and 

 of a deep chestnut colour, a kind of polecat, lesse than a fox ; 

 and the furre is much esteemed ; not much inferior to sables. 

 It is the richest furre of our nation. In Cranborne Chase and 

 at Vernditch are some marterns still remaining." So wrote 

 John Aubrey between 1656 and 1691 (Nat. Hist. Wilts, edited 

 by John Britton, F.S.A., 4to, 1847, p. 59). 



