248 COMMON liK'lTISH ANIMALS 



" Oil Dunsiiiore heath I alsoe slewe 

 A iiiightye wyld and criiell beast 

 Call'd the Duneow of Dvinsinore heath 

 Which many people had opprest ; 



" Some of her bones in Warwicke yette 

 There for a moniiineiit doth lye 

 Which unto euery lookers veae 

 As vvonderons strange they may espye." 



Boece tells of the origin of the surname "Turnbull." 

 How, when King Robert Bruce was out hunting a 

 wild bull, the beast feeling himself '' sore wounded 

 by the hunters, he rushed upon the King, who, 

 having no weapon left m his hand wherewith to 

 defend himself, he had surely perished if rescue had 

 not come. Howbeit, in this distress one came run- 

 ning unto him, who overthrew the bull by plain foi-ce, 

 and held him down till the hunters killed him out- 

 right. For this valiant act the King endowed the 

 aforesaid party with great possessions, and his lineage 

 is to this day called of the Turnbulls, because he over- 

 turned the beast and saved the King^s life by such 

 great prowess and manhood. ^^ 



The Chillingham herd, which has been immortali'sed 

 by Landseer, inhabit an enclosure in the woodlands 

 around Chillingham Castle in Northumberland. The 

 estate once formed part of the great Caledonian 

 Forest, as Cadzow Castle in Lanarkshire does, where 

 there is another ancient herd. 



The late Lord Tankerville, who studied the habits 

 of the Chillingham cattle, writing in Storer's ' Wild 

 White Cattle of Great Britain,' says : 



'^ They have in the first place pre-eminently all 

 the characteristics of wild animals, with some pecu- 



