230 WILD WHITE CATTLE. 
leg, from the knee downwards, mottled with black. 
The cows seldom have horns ; their bodies are thick 
and short, their limbs stouter, and their heads rounder 
than in the Chillmgham breed, with small turn-up 
horns. In October, 1874, there were about thirty 
animals in this park, including one bull, and in a 
field near the park with similar pasturage were © 
fifteen bulls and steers, along with one old cow and 
a young heifer—in all forty-five head. ah June, 1877; 
the number had increased to fifty-six.’ 
* CHARTLEY PARK, eas (eee 1000 
acres in extent, the property of Earl Ferrers, was 
formed by inclosing part of the Forest of Needwood 
by charter of Henry III. “ About this time (32, 33 
Hen. IIL, that is, 1248—9),” says Sir Oswald Mosley, 
“some of the wild cattle of the country which had 
hitherto roamed at large in the Forest of Needwood 
were driven into the park at this place, where their 
breed is still preserved.”t Erdeswick, who began his 
“Survey of Staffordshire” about 1593, speaks of it 
as very large, and having therein red-deer, fallow- 
deer, wild beasts (2.¢., cattle) and swine. In an old 
* Account Book of the Steward of the Manor of 
Chartley, Przeses, Com. Ferrers,” is the following 
entry : 
“1658. P* a moytie of the charge of mowings, makings, and carry- 
ing of hay for ye wild beasts—£2 7s. 7d.” 
In this herd, the usual average number of cattle, 
which were white with black ears, is said not to have 
* A. H. Cocks, The Zoologist, 1878, p. 283. 
+ “Hist. Tutbury, co. Stafford” (1832). 
