466 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 

MAMMALIA. 
Cornish Mammals.—My late uncle, Col. C. L. Cocks, of Treverbyn 
Vean, in St. Neot’s parish, near Liskeard, told me that the Marten 
used to be known in Cornwall as “ Fairy,’”’ pronounced “ Vairy,” and 
suggested a connection with the heraldic fur— Vair,” although the 
‘tinctures’ as blazoned are by no means “ proper”’ for this species. 
He told me of two or three occurrences in the county which I have 
since forgotten, but in one instance a Marten was found and run by 
foxhounds, which is very possibly the case recorded by the late 
Mr. Rodd in ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1878, quoted by Dr. Clark (ante, 
p. 413). On June 5th, 1883, I sent my uncle a pair of Pine Martens, 
which he turned out at Treverbyn. The male was bred in my collec- 
tion, and born on April 7th, 1882, and his mate was expressly pur- 
chased from the Zoological Gardens. She had evidently not been 
entered on the strength of the establishment, as no recent arrival is 
recorded at that time in the ‘ List of Animals,’ either in the 1883 or 
the next (1896) editions, but she came, I think, from Wales. My 
uncle never saw any more of them, except once, only a few months 
(or perhaps weeks) afterwards, when, as he was driving homewards 
one day from the Liskeard direction, and when abreast of his own 
land on one side of the road, he saw a Marten in a tree at the edge of 
the wood on the opposite side. Several years subsequently a friend 
told me of some animals of which he had heard mysterious reports, 
near Dartmouth, and thought they might be Martens. As Dartmouth 
is less than fifty miles from where the two were turned out, I always 
hoped that this might be news of them, or of descendants; but as 
Dr. Clark mentions (loc. czt.) that ‘somewhere about 1885 it seems 
another example was killed in the East Looe Valley, a few miles from 
Liskeard,” this is probably the register of death of one of the two, as 
the locality is barely ten miles from Treverbyn. But even so, as one 
or two breeding seasons had elapsed before that catastrophe (and only 
one individual is accounted for), it is just possible that there are 
survivors. A note on Polecats in Cornwall, by me, was printed in 
‘The Zoologist’ for 1885. There used to be a large colony of Badgers 
