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an Aberdeen-Angus animal born within the last 

 four or five years which is not descended from 

 Iliad more than once. 



One other Scots breed — the Highlanders — is 

 also of some interest. Its basis was the original 

 black Celtic cattle. The browns or (in Gaelic) 

 donns came in at some time or other, and brindles 

 appeared from the cross. The hornless light 

 dun Scandinavians came in and produced hornless 

 cattle and duns with the black ones, and further 

 brindles with the donns. Subsequently red 

 English — some of them with Longhorn markings 

 — reached the Highlands, and there resulted 

 another brindle with the donns, and a yellow by 

 crossing with the light duns ; but the Longhorn 

 markings and the hornlessness got from the 

 Scandinavians have been eliminated. The follow- 

 ing diagram will show how the present Highland 

 colours were produced from the original four : — 





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