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WHITE CATTLE: AN INQUIRY INTO THEIR ORIGIN, ETC. 2 
medizval magnates.” Mr. Turner, in his paper, limits himself to 
the Cadzow Forest herd of white cattle. He says that “the 
popular exaggeration that they are a distinct and untamable race 
has grown out of the eagerness of human nature after the unique. 
A Bos or Urus scoticus would be a singularity of much patriotic 
significance.” Of course, Scotchmen are pleased when they find, 
for example, Mr. E. L. Trousessart, in his article “Beuf” in 
La Grande Encyclopédie, now in course of publication, giving, as 
an illustration of white cattle, the “crane de Bceuf des parcs 
d’Ecosse.” For my part, I rather doubt the reliability of French 
authorities, when I find that they state that these cattle— Race 
blanche des foréts”—are preserved by the Duke of Sutherland in 
a park 480,000 hectares, or about 960,000 acres in extent,? 
Regarding the Cadzow cattle [Pl. V.], Mr. Turner writes, ‘what 
peculiarly wild habits are there? I see only frightened animals, 
maternal instinct, and human savagery. Beyond shyness and 
watchfulness, none of the habits of the cattle strikes me as in any way 
other than to be expected in animals not thoroughly domesticated.” 
* As to the origin of these white cattle,” he further says, “I hold 
from their habits that we are not warranted in concluding that 
they are truly wild animals. The tamest animals, if left to them- 
selves, revert in a few generations to a wild state. The relapsed 
herds of cattle, originating in strayed domestic animals, present, 
in some countries, a case in point, and in wild instincts and habits 
far out-do our British white cattle.’ Mr. Turner concludes his 
paper as follows :—“I think, however, that it may be taken as 
established that these white cattle have been about Cadzow from 
very remote times with an occasional break and reintroduction ; 
that they are a fancy breed artificially preserved in a half-wild 
state ; that they are descendants of a formerly domesticated race ; 

1 Another French writer, Professor Sanson, in the article ‘‘ Ecossaise 
(Zootechnie) ” in Barral’s Dictionnaire d’ Agriculture, states that we have 
three varieties of cattle. First, the ‘‘ West Highland ;” secondly, the 
‘* Kiloe ;”’ and then ‘‘ La troisiéme, qui vit dans le pare de Shilligham, au 
due de Sutherland, pour en faire seulement l’ornement comme objet de 
curiosité aristocratique, est ce qu’on appelle en Angleterre la race blanche 
des foréts. Un spécimen empaillé est exposé au British Museum de 
Londres. II n’y a pas lieu de s’en occuper autrement que pour la signaler 
ici, son utilité zootechnique étant nulle,” 
