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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
MAMMALIA. 
Pine Marten ( Maries abielum, Pay). On the 9th of July, 
1878, Mr. T. E. Gunn showed mo n beautiful male Pino Marten 
which line! been brought, to him in the flesh. Mr. Frank Norgnto 
took great pains to ascertain t lie history of this specimen, and 
from him I subsequently learned that it was trapped by a man 
named Wilmot in a fir plantation at Hevingham Marl Pit, 
Mr. Norgate did not succeed in seeing "Wilmot, but his wife said 
that she saw her husband leading the beast homo in the trap, and 
that it was “ sweet, clean, quite uninjured by the trap,” and trotted 
along quietly ; ho also saw several other persons who had seen it 
alive or dead, by some of whom it was spoken of as a “ big polecat," 
by others as a “fox cub,” nobody seeming to have any idea as to 
what it really was. Wilmot killed the Marten and sold it to 
Samuel Howard, of the Marsh am Arms, who took it to Mr. Gunn. 
A letter inserted in all the local papers failed to elicit anything with 
regard to this interesting occurrence ; it seems, however, highly im- 
probable that after having been lost sight of for fifty years in this dis- 
trict, it should have occurred in a state of nature. — T. Southwell. 
Pilot Whale. On the night of January 29th, 1879, a dead 
female Pilot Whale (Globicephalus melas ) was washed on shore 
about ono mile north of Mundesley. The stranding of a dead 
cetacean, which has perhaps been drifted hither and thither by winds 
and currents, constitutes in itself a very slight title to a place in a 
local Fauna, but as this species has been found as far south as the 
Mediterranean, it is only reasonable to suppose it occasionally 
passes our shores, although it has not actually been obtained alive. 
The list of Norfolk Cetacea with this addition will be increased to 
ten species. — T. Southwell. 
Natural History Notes from Churchwardens’ Accounts. 
The parish accounts of Northropps for the earlier part of the 
18th century contain many rewards for the killing of foxes, 
badgers, polecats, and jackdaws. The reward paid per head being 
Is. for foxes and badgers, 2d. for polecats, and Id. for jackdaws. 
