266 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
volume of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture says :—‘ With 
the exception of the aboriginal breed of cattle, a few of which, 
polled, and of a dingy white colour, are still to be seen in the park 
of the Duke of Hamilton at Cadzow, the West Highland or Kyloe 
breed is the oldest in Scotland.” It will be noticed that the 
Hamilton cattle are not termed “wild” by this writer. About 
this period—1838—Lord Tankerville, who inspected the Hamilton 
cattle, wrote:—‘“They have no beauty, no marks of high breeding, 
no wild habits, being kept, when I saw them, in a sort of 
paddock ; and I could hear no history or tradition about them 
which entitled them to be called wild cattle.” Though Lord 
Tankerville is not a disinterested, yet in one sense he is an 
expert, witness. Being polled, the cattle would probably be a 
domestic breed. 
Mr. Lofft, of Troston Hall, has pointed out that the white 
polled breed was much more common in the last century than we 
think, or the owners of herds of white cattle care to admit. For 
instance, he points out that Ward, the elder, who painted in the 
eighteenth century, was particularly fond of introducing into his 
landscapes this sort of cattle. In a large landscape by this 
painter in the National Gallery, London, there stands in the fore- 
ground, a grand white polled bull with red ears. In the same 
gallery there is another picture, much smaller, with a white bull, 
also with red ears. In another landscape is shown a white-horned 
cow, with red ears. 
I have quoted the remarks of Lord Tankerville on the Hamilton 
eattle. It is but right, I think, to say that the purity of the 
Chillingham cattle [Pl]. VII.] is not above suspicion. A question 
often asked is, what became of the wild cattle that used to be in 
Drumlaurig Park? Ramage, in his work on “ Drumlanrig Castle 
and the Douglases,” published in 1876, says:—‘‘There is a tradition 
that, about a hundred years ago, the whole stock was sold and 
driven off en masse to Chillingham, the seat of the Earl of 
Tankerville, in Northumberland, via Durisdeer and the Wald- 
path, and as they were rather an unruly drove, they were 
accompanied to the confines of the county by almost all the men 
and dogs in the surrounding district.” 
I think it must be admitted that, when you have a whole country- 
side participating in a drive like this, the tradition of it will be 
