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gave little milk, but the quality was rich. She was crossed 

 by a country bull, but her progeny very closely resembled 

 herself, being entirely white, excepting the ears, which 

 were brown, and the legs, which were mottled." These 

 facts speak for themselves. 



Culley, in giving their distinguishing characteristics, 

 says : " Their colour is invariably of a creamy white ; 

 muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and 

 about one third of the outside, from the tips downwards, 

 red; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent 

 upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, 

 about an inch and a half, or two inches long." 



That their colour is invariably white is simply owing to 

 the care that is taken to destroy all the calves that are 

 born of a different description. It is pretty well known 

 to the farmers about Chillingham (although pains are 

 taken to conceal the fact,) that the wild cows in the 

 park not unfrequently drop calves variously spotted. 

 With respect to the redness of the ears, this is by no 

 means an invariable character, many young ones having 

 been produced without that distinctive mark ; and Bewick 

 records, that about twenty years before he wrote, there 

 existed a few in the herd with black ears, but they were 

 destroyed. So far from the character here given of the 

 horns being confined to those white cattle, it is precisely 

 the description of the horns of the Kyloe oxen, or black 

 cattle. The investiture of some of the bulls with a mane 

 is equally gratuitous ; Cole, who was park-keeper for more 

 than forty years, and of course had ample means of ob- 

 servation, distinctly informed me that they had no mane, 

 but only some curly hair, about the neck, which is like- 

 wise an attribute of the Kyloe Oxen. 



