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with a thick mane resembling a lion's, and wild and 

 savage. He says that it had formerly abounded in 

 the Sylva Caledonia, but was then only to be found 

 at Stirling, Cumbernauld, and Kincardine. 14 Sand- 

 ford, in his manuscript history of Cumberland, dated 

 1675, says around Naworth formerly were "pleasant 

 woods and gardens ; ground full of fallow dear fied- 

 ing on all somer-tyme ; brawe venison pasties, and 

 great store of reid dear on the mountains ; and white 

 wild cattle, with black ears, only on the moores." 15 

 We find them referred to by Bewick in 1770, and in 

 1781 Pennant speaks of them as retaining their white 

 color, but as having lost their manes. 16 Conrad 

 Gesuer describes them as " white oxen, maned about 

 the neck like a lion. . . . This beast is so 

 hateful and fearful of mankind, that it will not feed ot 

 that grasse or those hearbes whereof he savoureth a 

 man hath touched no, not for many days together; 

 and if, by art or policy, they happen to be taken 

 alive, they will die with very sudden grief. If they 

 meet a man, presently they make force at him, fear- 

 ing neither dogs, spears, nor other weapons." 17 



About 1800 they are spoken of as invariably white, 

 with the ears internally and externally about one third 

 down, red ; horns white, tipped with black, and the 

 muzzles black. 18 In 1836 we begin to get more par- 

 ticular descriptions. Color invariably white, muzzle 



14 Leslie. De Origine Moribus et Rebus Gestis Scotorum, Rome, 1598, ed. of 

 1675, 18, quoted in An. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1839, ii, 282. Also in Low's Ani- 

 mals, 2*4. 



is Jour. R. A. S. 1852, xiii, 219. 



16 Quadrupeds, 16. 



17 Itith Century; quoted from Scherer's Rural Life, p. 627. 



18 Complete Grazier, p. i. 



