56 EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CATTLE 



dun is not disliked. Pure white or streaked are 

 counted inferior."^ 



Here, in a few words, we have the early 

 history of the modern Aberdeen-Angus breed. 

 Scarcely had the inland horned black cattle begun 

 to unite with the hornless coast cattle when they 

 resolved to take in partners from the south. In 

 course of time the amalgamation resulted in a 

 breed with characters derived from several sources : 

 blackness from the native horned cattle, hornless- 

 ness from the coast cattle, and size from the cattle 

 from the south. Some of the characters brought 

 in, and other characters which appeared during 

 the process, were eventually eliminated. Here 

 we are only concerned with the colours. We 

 know those of the native horned cattle and of the 

 cattle brought in from the south, and we also 

 know the new colours that could have arisen 

 from the mixing of these. Altogether they were : 

 black from the native and the Fifeshire cattle ; 

 red, brindled, and white marks above and below 

 from the Longhorns and their crosses ; and red, 

 red and white, roan, white, and blue roan from 

 the Shorthorns. Brown was, perhaps, in the 

 country before the southern cattle came in. If 

 not, it came in with the Longhorns. But other 

 colours are reported to have appeared by Youatt 

 and the other writers quoted. There are yellow, 



^ " Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland for 1906," p. 204. 



