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THE OX TRIBE. 



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CHILLINGHAM WHITE CATTLE. 



Bos Taurus. Restricted Variety. 



Considerable interest has always been connected with 

 the history of those herds of white cattle which have been 

 kept secluded, apparently from time immemorial, in the 

 parks of some of our aristocracy.* It has been, and still is, 



* Formerly these cattle were much more numerous, both in England 

 and Scotland, than they are at present. Scanty herds are still pre- 

 served at the following places : Chillingham Park, Northumberland ; 

 Wollaton, Nottinghamshire ; Gisburne, in Craven, Yorkshire ; Lime-hall, 

 Cheshire; Chartley, Staffordshire; and Cadzow Forest, at Hamilton, 

 Lanarkshire. 



At Gisburne they are perfectly white, except the inside of their ears, 

 which are brown. 



From Garner's ' Natural History of Staffordshire,' we learn that the 



