THE MARTEN IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 5 
Bucks.—H. Formerly existed. 
Berks.—H. One; no date. 
Herts.—H. 1872. 
Hssex.—H. 1845, 18538. 
Kent.—H. About 1830. 
Surrey.—H. 1834, 1847; one seen by Mr. G. E. Lodge near 
Dorking, May 12th, 1879. 
Sussex.—H. Three about 1841; 1866. 
Hants.—H. About 1845, 185-. 
Wilts—H. Seventeenth century. 
Dorset —H. 1851. 
Devon.—H. 1871; nearly extinct, 1877. 
Cornwall.—H. 1848, 1878. 
DiGcEst. 
From the above records several interesting conclusions may 
be drawn :— 
1. The Marten became rare throughout the midland and 
south-eastern counties during the first half of the nineteenth 
century. 
2. In most of these counties it became extinct before 1860, 
but since that date there have been isolated occurrences in Herts, 
Surrey, and Sussex. 
3. In the group of eastern counties—Lincoln, Norfolk, and 
Suffolk—it survived into the eighties, whilst there have been 
recent occurrences in Leicestershire. 
4. In Devon and Cornwall it lingered into the seventies. 
5. At the present time there are but two tribes of Martens 
remaining in England and Wales, their respective headquarters 
being the Lake District and the west of North and Central 
Wales. 
6. From time to time Martens still occur in the counties con- 
tiguous to these two districts. 
7. Recent records are most numerous in the counties nearest 
to these districts. (Lincolnshire is an exception.) 
8. In Wales the Marten has occurred in all the twelve counties 
except Anglesey and Pembroke, but appears never to have been 
common in the southernmost counties. 
