And the new kid on the block is the pine marten.

Later I was told that it was a pine marten.

Now I'm wary of going out in the garden and accosting the pine marten.

And, likely, a pine marten was incorporated into his running adventure story called Wild Wisdom.

The pine marten, which is native to Ireland, is a larger cousin of the stoat.

Spite the Marten is also called the Pine Marten and the American Sable, and he is one of the handsomest members of the Weasel family.

An allied species inhabits the Hudson's Bay territory, known as the American sable, and another, belonging to the Japanese islands, is called the Japan sable.

Included in these London sales are some hundred thousand martens, or Hudson Bay sables, and probably four times that number of mink.