228 WILD WHITE CATE 
principal seat of the Nevills, and at Beaurepaire, the 
ancient hunting park of the Priors of Durham. The 
cattle at this last-named place, it is said, were all 
destroyed by the Scots in 1315. 
Buatr ATHOLE, PERTHSHIRE.-—Fifty years ago, in 
one of the parks of this ancient seat of the Murrays, 
Dukes of Athole, in the forest of that name, roamed 
a herd of wild cattle, white with black points, having 
the ears, muzzles, and hoofs black. In 1834 this 
herd was sold, a portion going to Taymouth to the 
Marquisof Breadalbane, andtheremainder to Dalkeith, 
to the Duke of Buccleuch. Both these herds are now 
extinct, but from them has descended in part the 
semi-wild herd which still exists at Kilmory House, 
Argyllshire, the property of Sir John Powlett Orde. 
Burton ConsTABLE, YORKSHIRE, an ancient park, 
at present containing about 290 acres, is the property 
of Sir F. Clifford Constable. At one time it contained 
a herd of white cattle, as we learn from Bewick, who 
in 1790 wrote of them as having been then a few 
years extinct. “Those at Burton Constable,” he 
says, “were all destroyed by a distemper a few years 
since. They varied slightly from those at Chilling- 
ham, having black ears and muzzles, and the tips of 
their tails of the same colour. They were also much 
larger, many of them weighing sixty stone, probably 
owing to the richness of the pasturage in Holderness, 
but generally attributed to the difference of kind 
between those with black and white red ears, the 
former of which they studiously endeavour to preserve. 
The origin of this herd has only been surmised.” 
* See Storer, p. 255. 
