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herd or in the Scotch shows one may see all these colors. The hair 

 is very long and shaggy, often reaching six inches in length. 

 The head is very hairy and is surmounted by very long, large 

 horns which curve forward and upward with the points wide 

 apart. The horns are white with light colors, or white with dark 

 tips with dark colors. The color of the muzzle varies from buff 

 or flesh shade to dark, in harmony with depth of color of hair. 



FIG. 101. Head of the Highland bull Sir Andrew (1742), champion of the 

 breed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, and one of the few males 

 of the breed in America. Owned by W. M. Van Norden, Rye, New York 



The neck is short and thick with a mane on top and heavy dewlap 

 below. "In form," says John Robertson of Blair Athol, "it 

 possesses all the characteristics so much and so justly prized in 

 the Shorthorn the straight back, the short legs, the broad 

 chest, the breadth of loin and depth of rib, and, in short, the 

 ' squareness ' and solidity of form which always imply weight, 

 whether in man or beast ; while the noble branching horns, the 

 fine, full, and fearless eye, the short, broad, well-bred muzzle, the 



