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(and Eglinton Castle?), Kilmalcolm, and Kilmoiy (Lochgilphead). 

 The sole surviving herd is at Cadzow, the numbers of which, 

 as the undernoted figures show, are well maintained : — 



Total Number 

 Date. of Animals. Authority. 



1835, ... 80 (about) Now Statistical Account — Lanark- 

 shire, p. 278. 

 18th July, 1877, ... 56 A. H. Cocks. Zoologist, IS78, -pp. 



282-3. 



1880, ... 40 (over) Alston's Mammalia (p. 25), auct. 



Storcr's Wild White Cattle (1879). 



ttee of the British 



Zoologist, 1887, p. 



15th Oct., 1900, 



In 1886 fresh blood was introduced from Chillingham, and in 

 1898 one Bull and four Cows were brought in from Vaynol 

 Park, Carmarthenshire, for cross-breeding. The original stock 

 at Vaynol was from Kilmory, and consisted of 22 animals trans- 

 ferred previous to 1897. The Kilmory herd was raised, previous 

 to 1845, from a Wliite Bull (which was understood to have come 

 from that portion of the Blair Atholl stock which had gone 

 to the Earl of Breadalbane in 1834), and from white or dun 

 Highland Cows. The last of the Kilmory beasts were disposed 

 of in 190-3. I can add nothing to the account given by Mr. J. E. 

 Harting (^British Animals extinct within Historic Times, 1880) 

 of the Auchincruive and Ardrossan herds. The animals, which 

 were at Kilmalcolm previous to 1845, were brought from Eglin- 

 ton, and were probably the same stock as the Ardrossan ones. The 

 historic " quliit bullis " of Cumbernauld mentioned by Boece 

 (a.d. 1527), Bishop Leslie (1578), and Monipennie (1597), if not 

 entirely destroyed by the Earl of Lennox in 1570, may have 

 some connection with the Cadzow herd, the origin of which is 

 not known. 



35. *B. LONGIFRONS, Owen — Celtic Shorthorn. Remains of 

 this species have, within recent years, been found in superficial 



