polecats and martens only exist in the old rating book, but weasels and stoats remain, as well as a profusion of their prey-hares and rabbits.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Even when in holes, they sometimes round the nest into a more or less regular though shallow cup, and use a good deal of moss or a little grass or grass-roots; but as a rule the hairs of soft and downy fur constitute the chief material, and this is picked out by the birds, I believe, from the dung of the various cats, polecats, and ferrets so common in all our hills.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Because you can keep frogs, and jays, and polecats, and snakes, and anything, and they don't want to be fed.
"Burr Junior"
G. Manville Fenn