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Order CARNIVOEA. 
Fam. Canidte. 
12. Canis vulpes (Linn.). Fox. 
Fain. MusTELiDiE. 
13. Maetes sylvatica (Nilss.). Marten. 
The late Mr. Edward E. Alston, in a paper read before the 
Zoological Society of London, in June, 18/9 (P.Z.S. 1879, 
pp. 468 — 472), has shown that there is no evidence whatever 
of the existence of the true M. foina at any time in Britain, and 
that the British animals usually referred to that species are really 
pale-breasted individuals or faded specimens of M. sylvatica. As 
late as the year 1811, in the adjoining county of Suffolk, on an 
estate of 4,000 acres, as many as forty-three Martens were killed 
in one year (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 224), 
and old men speak of its having been met with in Norfolk 
at the commencement of the present century, the first twenty 
years of which probably saw the last of the native race. From 
time to time, however, stray individuals are killed, two having 
come to my knowledge since the publication of my first list. 
In 1864, a female was trapped at Kelling, by a gamekeeper in the 
employ of Captain Bird, and is now in that gentleman’s possession, 
at Little Waltham Hall, Essex (c/. Zool. 1872, p. 146). Another 
was trapped at Hevingham, near Norwich, on 9th July, 1878. It 
came into the possession of Mr. T. E. Gunn, birdstufifer, of Norwich, 
but to whom ho disposed of it I am not aware. That these were 
escapes, I have no doubt, although unable to trace them. lo show 
how easily this may occur, I was informed by a friend, that some 
years ago an undergraduate at Cambridge surprised him by stating 
that from time to time a considerable number of live Martens had 
been sent to him from Ireland, several of which had escaped and 
were then living at large in his neighbourhood, in the South of 
England; the same thing may well have happened in Norfolk 
without its being suspected. 
14. Mustela vuegaeis (Linn.). Weasel. 
A beautiful little female, the under parts pure white, which 
extended to the left leg and foot, was killed at Northrepps in 
December, 1876. On the 25th November, 1878, I saw a female 
Weasel, also from Northrepps, in which the front and sides of the 
