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to 1844. Mr. J. R. B. Masefield writes that one was obtained on 
the Staffordshire side of Dovedale many years ago. From in- 
dependent sources the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain gathers that the 
date was about 1835. 
Derbyshire.—Mr. Jourdain also informs me that a Marten was 
exhibited in a cage in the market-place, Manchester, about 1830, 
that was said to have been taken in the High Peak. 
Cheshire.—Byerley records two obtained in Wirral in the 
forties. Mr. R. Newstead mentions one killed at Sandbach in 
1876, and a male, now in the Chester Museum, killed at Katon 
(the Duke of Westminster’s seat), July 8th, 1891. 
Denbigh & Flint.—A few days after the Eaton example was 
obtained another was killed at Hope, whilst in April, 1892, 
another was taken at Connah’s Quay. The Marten still lingers 
precariously in the far west of Denbighshire, and possibly in 
Glyn Ceiriog (cf. Forrest, ‘ Fauna of North Wales,’ p. 31). 
Montgomery.—None recorded for many years till about 1865, 
when one was killed at Maesmawr, near Welshpool. Another, in 
the collection of the late Mr. G. Dumville Lees, was obtained at 
Abermule in November, 1895, and reported by Mr. Lees at the 
time in the ‘ Field.’ 
Shropshire.—Eyton wrote of the Marten as getting scarce in 
the thirties, but I know of six or seven examples obtained in the 
Ludlow district during the forties. One was obtained in Stokes 
Wood, Craven Arms, in 1862. No others till 1907, when two 
were taken, both females; the first near Chirbury about April 
20th, the second at Millichope a fortnight later. This last has 
been presented by Capt. Beckwith to the Shrewsbury Museum. 
Lancashire.—H. Still found in Furness district, 1877. In 
‘The Zoologist,’ 1896, p. 376, Mr. J. R. Denwood records one at 
Coniston in June, 1896. In ‘The Zoologist,’ 1904, p. 455, is a 
record of an old female obtained in the same district, May 13th, 
1902. 
Yorkshire—H. 1854, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1884. Mr. H. B. 
Booth tells me that a Marten was obtained at Buckden, on the 
north-west border of the county, about 1880; whilst Mr. T. H. 
Nelson recorded in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 1900, p. 517, an old male 
taken at Swainby, in Cleveland, Feb. 9th, 1900. Messrs. Clarke 
and Roebuck, in their ‘ Fauna,’ record Martens near Whitby in 
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