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Rh The following notes on the weasel are interesting.

The question of the identity of the common and pine marten is discussed at some length, but without any satisfactory result: both the supposed species are figured.

The wild cat (Felis catus) is the only example of its family. It is one of those animals which appear on the eve of total extermination; the supposed specimens of this creature which so often ornament the doors of our barns being invariably wanderers from some neighbouring cottage or farm-house: none the less deserving of their fate, for having once lived a decent and orderly life.

The fox is the only example of the dog tribe now wild in Britain.