28 THE BRITISH MAMMALS : THEIR GENERA AND SPECIES. 



its flippers. In colour it is greyish black above and white below, 

 the white extending over the lower surface of its flippers and tail. 

 It is a North Atlantic species, of which there have been frequent 

 captures off and on our east coast. It may be worth noting that 

 Rorqual is merely rorq-val, " the whale with the folds " in the 

 throat. 



Bos. Plate xv. UNGULATA. 



49. taunts, PARK CATTLE. Colour white, with black or red 



muzzles and ears ; horns white with black tips. 



The Park Cattle are the representatives of the wandering herds 

 of Britain restricted to definite areas on the enclosure of the 

 baronial parks many centuries ago, and, owing probably to inter- 

 breeding, are much smaller in stature than their ancestors. There 

 are only four of these herds now left, all of which are white. Three 

 of them have black ears, one, that at Lyme, in Cheshire, has the 



CHILLINGHAM BULL. 

 (Bos taunts.) 



ears either black or red, as that at Chillingham, in Northumber- 

 land, had three hundred years ago. The muzzle is of the same 

 colour as the ears. In three herds the horns point upwards, in one, 

 that at Chartley, in Staffordshire, they point outwards. In all 

 cases the neck, sides, and legs are spotted with black ; at Cadzow, 

 in Lanarkshire, the herd has not only black ears and muzzles, but 



