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mentioned this herd as one of the five “ only breeds 
how remaining in the kingdom.” They were all 
white, with black noses and black ears, and had a 
fine circlet of black round the eyes. They were 
polled, or hornless, and were known as the “ old park 
breed,” a name denoting some antiquity. ‘Their origin 
can now only be surmised.* They became extinct in 
the time of Henry, sixth Lord Middleton—that is, 
between 1800 and 1835—when, fourteen of them 
having died at one time from eating dead branches 
cut from trees near the hall, and the herd having 
thus become so reduced by the accident, and the 
survivors showing no tendency to breed, they were 
ordered to be sold and slaughtered. 
Of all these herds, there are now existing only 
those at Cadzow (Hamilton), Chartley, Chillingham, 
Kilmory, Lyme, and Somerford. 
In Ireland no trace of these wild cattle has yet 
been discovered, although remains of the smaller 
Bos longifrons have been procured from many Irish 
localities.t 
* Storer, pp. 274, 275. 
+ See Ball, ‘Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.,” vol. ii. p. 541; Wilde, op. cit., 
vil. p. 183. Adams, op. cit. (second series), vol. i. p.90; Scouler, 
“Journ. Geol. Soc.,” Dublin, vol. i. p. 228; Owen, “ British Fossil Mam 
mals,” p. 508; and Thompson, ‘‘ Nat. Hist. Ireland,” vol. iv. p. 35. 
