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THE GUERNSEY BREED 



medium, up-standing horns, and the bull is very heavy in 

 the shoulders and light in the hind quarters. 



There are numerous other pictures in existence, 80 to 

 125 years old, purporting to represent so-called Alderney 

 cows, these show animals varying in color from light yellow 

 through shades of fawn, brown, and brindle to black. This 

 is additional proof that there was, only a few years ago, much 

 less difference in the breeds of cattle on the several islands 

 than writers have ordinarily led us to believe. We are re- 

 minded, too, that cattle in a particular district will vary greatly 

 in color in a few generations. 



There are several pictures in the National Gallery, Lon- 

 don, by the Holland artist, Guyp, a celebrated artist of the 

 15th century. Certain animals in several different pictures 

 of his show a similarity that suggests they were all painted 

 from a sketch he has made of a cow in the field. Several 

 animals represented are fawn, or fawn and white, or brown 

 and white. Their colors and form would indicate that they 

 were similar to the cattle of the Channel Islands as seen in 

 the earliest pictures and descriptions that we have of them. 

 This means, if it means anything, that the cattle of Holland 

 and the Channel Islands had probably a common origin not 

 many centuries ago. 



The question of the origin of the breed is not nearly so 



Fascination 2d 4665, P. S. Dam of two A. R. cows and one A. R. bull. 



