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Dorsetshire. — Mr. Mansel Pleydell (Zool. 1879, p. 171) 

 thought that the last Dorsetshire Marten was killed in the 

 Chace Woods by the late Mr. Chafin's hounds about the year 

 1804 ; but in 1851 one was killed on the estate of Mr. Weld, of 

 Lulworth, and about the same time another was taken on the 

 property of Sir John Smith, near Dorchester (' Naturalist,' 1855, 

 p. 176). Mr. C. W. Dale (Zool. 1879, p. 170) states that Martens 

 have been killed at Halnest, at Stock, and at Blandford, in this 

 county. 



Devonshire. — Formerly found in the woods at Lydford and 

 Buckland-in-the-Moor (Bellamy, Nat. Hist. S. Devon, p. 194) ; 

 Stoke Wood, near Exeter (D'Urban) ; and on the Glenthorn 

 Estate, on the borders of Dartmoor (Rev. M. A. Mathew). Mr. 

 Edward Parfitt, in his * Fauna of Devon' (Mammalia, p. 18), 

 considered, in 1877, that the Marten was nearly extinct in 

 Devon. He had heard of one killed near Ashburton in 18^1, 

 and two others at Answell Rock, Ashburton, which were stuffed 

 by Messrs. Hele. 



Cornwall. — About 1843, a pack of foxhounds in drawing 

 Bodethiel Coombe, in the Glynn Valley, near Bodmin, found and 

 killed a Marten, and the late Mr. E. H. Rodd, who recorded 

 this fact (Zool. 1878, p. 127), added that in March, 1878, a full- 

 grown female Marten was captured in the neighbourhood of 

 Delabole Quarries, in North Cornwall. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DONEGAL. 

 By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 424.) 



Wild Swan or Whooper, Cygnus musicus, Bechst. — Occa- 

 sional winter visitant in hard weather. Sir R. Payne Gallwey 

 mentions that Whoopers have been shot at Glen Lough and 

 Mulroy. 



Bewick's Swan, C. minor, Keys. & Blasius. — Wild Swans, 

 probably of this species, visit Ballyhernan Lake almost every 

 winter, in Fanet. Lough Fern and many other lakes are visited, 

 chiefly in hard winters, when the numbers are much larger. One 

 was shot near Carrick by Mr. Musgrave in 1878 (A. B.). On 



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