116 WHITE FOREST BREED. 



gradually approaching fences, leading to a large and 

 strong wagon sunk to the ground level, and so cap- 

 tured and taken to separate abodes, where they were 

 confined until all risk was passed. They have now 

 (in 1870) increased to thirty-seven. 66 



Dr. Knox says of these animals that they differ a 

 good deal in form from those of the Chillingham 

 Park. The markings also are different ; but still 

 there is a strong tendency in the young cattle to 

 cast calves which are said to be " off the markings," 

 and to be either entirely black or entirely white, or 

 black and white, but never red or brown. 67 



We have mention of some having been kept at 

 Ardrossan and Auchencruive, but no further partic- 

 ulars, except that those at the latter place were very 

 fierce. 68 They were also kept at Bishop- Auckland 

 in 1635. 69 



The cattle preserved at Drumlanrig, the seat of 

 the Duke of Queensberry, are said by Darwin to 

 have become extinct in 1780, and are described as 

 with their ears, muzzle, and orbits of the eyes black. 70 

 Pennant, writing in 1781, speaks of them as still ex- 

 isting, having lost their manes, but of a white color. 71 

 Dickinson states that two cows and a bull were liv- 

 ing in 1821, but the bull and one of the cows died 

 that year. He describes them as dun or rather flea- 

 bitten white, polled, with black muzzles and ear- tips, 



Gard. Chron. and Ag. Gaz., Aug. 6, 1870. 



67 Jour, of Ag. ix, 376. 



68 Sinclair's Scotland, iii, 44. 



e An. Nat. Hist. vol. iii, ser. 1, p. 241. 

 TO Darwin, An. and PI. under Dom. i, 107. 

 " Quadrupeds, 16. 



