WHITE FOREST BREED. 117 



with spotted legs. 72 Low says they were destroyed 

 many years ago by order of the late Duke of 

 Queensberry. 



The cattle at Gisburne Park, in Craven, County 

 of Yorkshire, England, the seat of Lord Ribbesdale, 

 are mentioned as late as 1852, as being pure white 

 with brown or red ears and noses. 73 Low speaks of 

 their being polled, 74 and Bewick describes them as 

 perfectly white except the inside of their ears, which 

 are brown. They are without horns, very strong 

 boned but not high. 75 He also states, as Darwin 

 quotes, that they are sometimes without dark muz- 

 zles. 76 They are said to have been originally brought 

 from Whalley Abbey, in Lancashire, upon its disso- 

 lution in 1542. 77 



The herd at Burton Constable, also in Yorkshire, 

 situated in the District of Holderness, all perished in 

 the middle of the last century of an epidemic disor- 

 der. They were of large size, and had the ears, 

 muzzle, and tip of the tail, black. 78 



From Garner's "National History of Staffordshire," 

 we learn that the wild ox formerly roamed over 

 Needwood Forest, and in the thirteenth century 

 William de Farrarus caused the park of Chartley to 

 be separated from the forest ; and the turf of this ex- 

 tensive enclosure still remains almost in its primitive 

 state. Here a herd of wild cattle has been preserved 



72 Dickinson, Jour. R. A. S. of Eng., 1852, 249. 



73 Dickinson, op. cit. 



74 Low's Animals, 238. 



75 Bewick's Quadrupeds, 8th edit. 39, note. 



76 An. and PI. under Dom. i, 108. 



77 Bewick's op. cit. 



78 Low s Animals, 238. 



