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mitted against certain Princes of Wales, there were de- 

 manded 100 white cows with red ears ; but that, if the cattle 

 were of a black colour, 150 were to be given. When the 

 Princes of Wales were compelled to render homage to the 

 ICings of England, the same kinds of cattle, we are in- 

 formed, were sometimes rendered in acknowledgment of the 

 sovereignty. In an old history of Flanders, quoted by Holm- 

 shed, it is stated that the lady of the Lord de Breuse, in 

 order to appease King John, whom she and her husband had 

 mortally offended, sent to the Queen a present of 400 kine and 

 one bull, all of white colour except the ears, which were red. 



The individuals of this race yet existing in Wales are 

 found chiefly in the county of Pembroke, where they have 

 been kept by some individuals perfectly pure, as a part of 

 their regular farm-stock. Until a period comparatively 

 recent, they were very numerous ; and persons are yet living 

 in the county of Pembroke, who remember when they were 

 driven in droves to the pastures of the Severn, and the neigh- 

 bouring markets. Their whole essential characters are the 

 same as those at Chillingham and Chartley Park, and else- 

 where. Their horns are white, tipped with black, and ex- 

 tended and turned upwards in the manner distinctive of the 

 wild breed. The inside of the ears and the muzzle are black, 

 and their feet are black to the fetlock joint. Their skin is 

 unctuous, and of a deep-toned yellow colour. Individuals of 

 this race are sometimes born entirely black, and then they are 

 not to be distinguished from the common cattle of the moun- 

 tains. 



The same race has been found in several parts of the 

 Continent of Europe. In Italy a few herds have been pre- 

 served. In the North of Sweden, the race can yet be dis- 

 tinguished amongst the reclaimed cattle of the country. In 

 the denies of the Pyrenees, they have been observed by 

 English sportsmen, altogether wild, and marked in the same 

 manner as the cattle of the parks, and in no respect to be 

 distinguished from them. 



