52 EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CATTLE 



But, " the horns were made this time of lead, lest 

 she should ever again be reduced to the condition 

 of a polled beast." 1 



The Angus Doddies and the Buchan 

 Humlies. The hornless cattle of Forfarshire and 

 Aberdeenshire may be considered together be- 

 cause their histories are parallel, and because, 



THE DURHAM DUN COW. 



[Front Hutchinsorfs " History of Durham. n 



although there are no definite records to the point, 

 there can be very little doubt but that they 

 are merely separate links in a chain of hornless 

 cattle that occupied the lands on the coast from 

 Forfarshire to Morayshire, if not farther. These 

 cattle are not mentioned by any writer till within 

 a few years of the close of the eighteenth century, 



1 "Thomas Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns," 1897, 

 p.. 46. 



