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to that conclusion, I was at first inclined to assume 

 that two or three had been left from which the herd 

 might have been reconstituted. It appears {Zoologist, 

 1878) that there was some story that they were all 

 killed off, but one, during last century, and that this 

 was a bull, from which the herd was started again 

 by breeding with the common cow. This seems to 

 be an attempt merely to account for the disappear- 

 ance and reintroduction of the herd, and the state- 

 ment lacks confirmation. This single bull from 

 which the herd was again reconstituted was almost 

 certainly not kept about Cadzow, or Naismith would 

 have known of it, and Sir Walter Scott have been 

 •eager to see it. It would, besides, be difficult to 

 bridge over thirty or forty years of herd-history 

 with this one bull. 



I should have been much pleased if I had been 

 able to establish a pure and unbroken record for 

 the Cadzow herd from the remotest antiquity; but 

 the evidence points all to an opposite conclusion. 

 Without doubt the herd was practically reintroduced 

 about the beginning of this century, either from a 

 few survivors of the former herd that had been 

 kept somewhere else, or from another distinct herd. 

 Mr. Robert Service, in an article in the Zoologist of 

 December last, says that the Drumlanrig herd is 

 believed to have been "disposed of some time 

 between 1770 and 1780 ; but where it was sent to 

 remains a mystery." He adds that the tradition is 

 that they were taken to Chillingham, but from the 

 part of the country through which they are said to 

 have passed, he thinks they were " more likely to 

 have been going to Cadzow rather than Chillingham." 

 If the herd at Drumlanrig was dispersed about 1770 

 or 1780, it was most certainly not taken to Cadzow, 

 as the evidence just adduced clearly shows. That 

 the herd at Drumlanrig did exist till 1780 or there- 

 abouts appears to be established on satisfactory 

 •evidence, while there is a probability that it was not 

 completely extirpated till some years later. If any 



