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and as a yearling came into possession of Mr. McCombie, who 

 bought her from Mr. Fullerton of Ardovie. She was sired by 

 Panmure (51), the great early sire of the breed, and through her 

 dam, Queen of Ardovie (29), was a granddaughter of Black Meg 

 (766). Albert Pullen 1 regards the Queen Mother as a tribe and 

 credits it with nine families or branches, namely : Pride of Aber- 

 deen, Empress of France ( or Dandy of Drumin), Daisy (or Vine 

 of Tillyfour), Rosie of Tillyfour, Duchess of Westertown, Matilda 

 of Yonderton, Charmer, Beauty of Morlich, and Victoria of Kelly. 

 Americans, however, do not make this distinction, and Queen 

 Mother and Pride of Aberdeen may each be regarded as families. 

 In McCombie's hands at Tillyfour the Queen Mother or Queen 

 family became famous. Queen Mother had four daughters : 

 Bloomer (201), Windsor (202), Lola Montes (208), and Victoria 

 of Kelly (345). A daughter of Lola Montes named Charlotte 

 (203) was an exceptional cow, for her daughter Pride of Aberdeen 

 (581) and her son Trojan (402) proved to be two of the epoch- 

 making animals of the breed. This was the favorite family of 

 Mr. McCombie, and it has always been very popular in America. 



The Pride or Pride of Aberdeen family derives its name from 

 Pride of Aberdeen (581), above referred to, calved in 1857. She 

 was sired by Hanton (228), a leading stock and show bull of 

 Mr. McCombie. At the Paris Exposition in 1856 Hanton and 

 Charlotte won premier honors for the breed, so that Pride of 

 Aberdeen rightly inherited great excellence. She had a remark- 

 able record in the show ring, ''without parallel in the chronicles 

 of the breed." She was the mother of seven females and four 

 bulls, and from her offspring, especially the cows, descends a 

 great line of producers. Her five daughters, Pride of Aberdeen 

 2d (1299), Pride of Aberdeen 3d (1168), Pride of Aberdeen ^th 

 (1171), Pride of Aberdeen 5th (i 174), and Pride of Aberdeen 7th 

 (1777), are the dams of many celebrated breeding and prize- 

 winning animals. Prince Ito (12869) 50006, bred at Ballindalloch 

 and one of the greatest sires ever imported to America, was a 

 great-grandson of Pride of Aberdeen 5th (1174). 



The Blackbird family is descended from imported Blackbird of 

 Corskie 684, a daughter of Lady Ida (1021). In fact, in Scotland 



1 Aberdeen-Angus Cattle. London, 1908. 



