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occurrence than now. MacGillivray, in his 

 "Report on the Present State of the Outer 

 Hebrides," published in 1834, writes that "the 

 common colours are black, red, brown or bran- 

 dered, that is a mixture of red and brown in 

 stripes — brindled. A whitish dun ^ colour is also 

 pretty frequently seen." ^ 



The Galloways. — The history of the Galloways 

 is very similar to that of the Aberdeen-Angus, 

 excepting that they felt and responded sooner 

 to the English demand for hornless cattle. There 

 is no description of the original hornless cattle of 

 Galloway, but the presence of dun among their 

 descendants, even down to the present day, 

 connects them with the other hornless cattle 

 round the British coasts. According to Youatt, 

 the majority of the cattle in Galloway were 

 horned in the middle of the eighteenth century ; 

 but in Culley's time the horned ones were 

 extinct : the Galloways' "most essential difference 

 from every other breed is in having no horns at 

 all."^ In this respect they were at least half a 

 century ahead of the Aberdeen-Angus. 



The Devon Natts, — The hornless Devon 

 cattle have been extinct for about a century ; and, 

 although there are several references to them, 

 there is no full description. Their territory was 



* That is apparently what is now called light dun. 



2 " Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society." 



3 "Observations upon Live Stock," second edition, 1794, p. 69. 



