146 CATALOGUE OF THE MAMMALIA OF 
be found now onlie in Comerland (Cummernald).”* In the 
time of Boethius, however, the wild Caledonian cattle were 
greatly reduced in numbers by general slaughter; and at the 
dissolution of the monasteries, it is said that the remnant was 
removed to Drumlanrig. These lived there till 1780, and had 
no manes such as those described by Boethius; hence the 
reduced manes of the Chillingham cattle is no argument against 
their Caledonian origin, seeing that the purely descended 
Drumlanrig cattle were like them in this respect. The Drum- 
lanrig cattle were swept off by distemper in 1780. Besides 
these, there were others at Chatelherault, which still exist, but 
are considerably degenerated. 
To turn now to England, we find in Matthew Paris’ account 
of Leofstant mention made of Tauri sylvestres, which, with many 
other wild animals, abounded in the forests of the Chiltern 
district of Bucks and Herts. It was here that the Saxon 
chieftains held out long against the Norman, and maintained 
the right of hunting for many subsequent centuries.t 
Hollinshed tells us that he has “read of wild bores and bulles 
to have been about Blackleigh neere Manchester, whither the 
saide prince (Henrie I.) would now and then resorte for his 
solace in this behalfe.”’ 
A manuscript in the possession of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, en- 
titled “‘ The Seconde Yeare’s Travell thorow Scotland and Ireland, 
1635,” proves that there were wild white cattle in the park at 
Bishop Auckland at that time. The writer passed some days 
“Catt Bishoppe Auckland with Dr. Moreton, Bishoppe of Durham, 
who maintains great hospitalitie in an orderly, well governed 
house, and is a verye worthy reverend Bishoppe;” after de- 
scribing the palace and ‘‘chapples,” he says he saw “a daintie 
stately parke wherein were wild bulls and kine, weh had two 
calves runers; there are about twenty wild beasts, all white, will 
nott endure yo’r approach, butt if they bee enraged or distressed, 
verye violent and furious, their calves will bee wondrous fatt.”§ 
* Hollinshed Chronicle, vol. v., p. 12. 
t Vite Sancti Abbati Albanum, p. 45. 
t Hollinshed Description of England, edit. 1607. p. 251. 
§ Ann. Nat. Hist, IIL (1839), p. 241. 
