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several parks in England and Scotland ; but they 

 have been destroyed by various means, and the only 

 breeds now remaining in the kingdom are in the 

 park at Chillingham Castle " and other English 

 localities. He gives no Scottish place whatever 

 where they then survived, and I can only infer from 

 this that he was quite aware that the herds had 

 become extinct both at Cadzow and Drumlanrig. In 

 the Zoologist for 1878, the editor, in some remarks 

 preliminary to a paper bearing on white wild cattle, 

 says as to Bewick's account : " the breed having 

 been introduced (subsequently it is presumed to 

 Bewick's notice) or reintroduced at Cadzow (Hamil- 

 ton)." Were Bewick not supported by other evidence, 

 such as I have adduced, I should hesitate to base 

 such an inference on his statement as the extinction 

 of the herd at Cadzow in his time ; but I must, in 

 face of all the other concurrent support, accept it 

 as valuable confirmatory testimony. That these 

 cattle were not introduced for the first time sub- 

 sequent to Bewick's work is, however, quite 

 established by Wilson's poem and other evidence, 

 so that reintroduction is the fact to be recognised 

 in the case. 



The article on the Parish of Hamilton in Sir John 

 Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, published 

 1791, was written by John Naismith, of Drnmloch, 

 East Kilbride, a gentleman of literary ability and 

 practical turn of mind, who published various works, 

 chiefly on agricultural subjects. He carried out very 

 extensive operations in reclaiming moss on his farm 

 of Drumloch, and on the ground of his literary and 

 agricultural services to his country lie was admitted 

 as a burgess of this city. Referring to the old oaks 

 at Cadzow, he says: "Among these venerable trees 

 grazed the white cows mentioned by naturalists as 

 an untamed native breed. They seemed to differ in 

 nothing from the domestic kind, excepting that they 

 were all over white, with black or broAvn ears or 

 muzzles ; and from their manner of life very shy and 



