WHITE FOREST BREED. 113 



calves appeared with black ears, but these were 

 destroyed, and black ears had not since reappeared. 52 

 Since 1855 about a dozen calves have been born with 

 brown or blue spots on their cheeks or necks, but 

 these, with any other defective animals, were imme- 

 diately destroyed, 52 and Low speaks of the tendency 

 of the young to be altogether black or altogether 

 white, or to have black ears. 53 In Keux's "Natural 

 History," published probably in the earlier part of 

 the present century, these cattle are said to have lost 

 their manes, but to have retained their color and 

 fierceness ; to be of a middle size, long legged, with 

 black muzzles and ears, and their horns to be fine 

 and to have a bold and elegant bend. The keeper of 

 those at Chillingham said that the weight of the ox 

 was thirty-eight stone, of the cow twenty-eight. It 

 would thus seem as if Keux spoke from personal 

 observation. 



Dr. Knox remarks that the wild white bull of Scot- 

 land, instead of having large horns like the fossil 

 breed, has either comparatively short horns, or none 

 at all ; and when present they follow precisely the 

 direction observed in those of the surrounding do- 

 mestic breeds. He also says that when calves are 

 taken from the cow and brought up with the domestic 

 cattle of the neighboring farms, they grow up quite 

 gentle, and precisely as other cattle. When the 

 young are born with red or black spots, or without 

 tails, or very short ones, they are uniformly de- 



2 Darwin, An. & PL under Dom. i, 107. 

 63 Low's Animals, 238. 



