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broad ; and being of greater weight in seemingly 

 less compass than any beasts I ever saw ; whether 

 from being without horns, from being constantly 

 kept in shedded yards or houses during the 

 winter, from their nature, or from these causes 

 altogether, they are so tame and docile, that 

 I never knew any mischief done by them to any 

 other animal." 1 It has been shown recently 3 

 that this mouse-coloured dun is the hybrid between 

 black and light dun, and we may infer, therefore, 

 that the colour of the Suffolk breed was light 

 dun. And this inference is confirmed by a 

 remark in Culley's " Observations on Live Stock" 

 that " the Suffolks are almost all light duns." 3 



By Low's time the Suffolks had extended to 

 " Norfolk, Cambridge, and apart of Essex," 4 but, 

 by crossing with red Norfolk cattle, many of 

 them had changed their colour to yellow, which 

 is the hybrid between red and light dun, and 

 some, by further crossing, had become red. 

 " The prevailing and the best colours are red, 

 red and white, brindled, and a yellowish cream 

 colour." 6 Eventually the Suffolk and Norfolk 

 breeds amalgamated : the former giving up their 

 colour and the latter their horns. 



The Northern or Yorkshire Polls. Few of 



1 Vol. iii., second edition, 1788, p. 280. 



2 Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. xii., No. 8, 

 " The Colours of Highland Cattle." 



3 Second edition, 1794, p. 66. 



4 " Domesticated Animals," p, 322. 5 " Youatt," 1834, p. 175. 



