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a pure bull to white Highland cows, whilst later on the progeny 

 had another cross with Cadzow cattle. The herd is therefore 

 three-quarter bred park cattle and one-quarter Highland. 

 The first bull was from Athol, the second from Lord Breadal bane's 

 — both used while the herd was at Kilmor}'-. Mr. L. F. Lort 

 tells me that the Cadzow bull was not introduced until 1896, 

 long after the herd came to Vaynol. In the review of the 

 Fmma in the Field, it is stated that the Cadzow bull was used 

 at Kilmory, but in this the reviewer was mistaken. The 

 Highland ancestry is still betrayed by a certain shagginess 

 about the forehead. 



Goat. — In Country Life, mid-March, 1901, is a fme drawing 

 by Mr. Lionel Edwards of a flock of Wild Goats on the snow- 

 clad slopes of Moel Wyn. The writer of the accompanying 

 article states that there are herds of perfectly Wild Goats also 

 on other parts of the range, and on Rhinog-fawr and a head- 

 land on the bounds of Pembroke and Cardiganshire, whilst 

 there used to be one on the Tremadoc rocks. The South 

 Wales herd, though not large, is of immemorial antiquity. 

 Absolute purity can hardly be claimed for the Moel Wyn herd, 

 as some fresh blood may have been obtained from Irish herds 

 that used to be driven through Wales for sale, but this practice 

 is not observed now, nor has it been for many years past. Still 

 it has quite " as much claim to purity and wildness as the 

 Chillingham cattle. Rough, shaggy, long-horned, they are very 

 shy, frequenting the most inaccessible parts of the mountains, 

 and are seldom seen except when driven by stress of weather 

 to the lower slopes. Sometimes the mountain-farmers organise 

 a goat hunt, running the animals down with sheep-dogs, and 

 then throwing a sack over their heads and dragging them 

 into captivity." Pennant, in his History of Quadrupeds, 1793, 

 p. 60, mentions that he had a pair of horns from a Welsh he- 

 goat which measured three feet five inches long, and three 

 feet two inches between tip and tip. 



