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cattle had first been brought there from the Highlands of 

 Scotland, although he does not state the grounds upon 

 which that assumption was based. According to Mr 

 Storer, this herd was in 1765 transferred to Gunton Park 

 in Norfolk, where it existed till some thirty-five or forty 

 years ago, having thrown off several branches which are 

 still represented by polled herds, at Blinkling, Woodbast- 

 wick, Brooke Hall, and other places in Norfolk. 



In other districts in England there would seem to have 

 been races of polled cattle which have long ago disappeared. 

 Youatt, writing nearly fifty years ago, says, " The Devon- 

 shire nats, or polled cattle, now rapidly decreasing in 

 number, possess the general figure and most of the good 

 qualities of the horned beasts of the district ; " while, in 

 reference to the " Northern or Yorkshire polled cattle," or 

 " Yorkshire polls," he says, they " are almost as large as 

 the horned beasts of that county, and as good for graz- 

 ing and for the pail. Many breeders pay particular atten- 

 tion to the shape of the head of these polled cattle, and to 

 a certain extent also in the horned ones." 



Passing into Scotland, we have several extinct as well 

 as two living races of polled cattle to note. The herd 

 of wild white cattle which existed at Ardrossan Park, 

 Ayrshire, for centuries, and became extinct about 1820, is 

 described as having been originally horned, but latterly 

 polled. Then it is clearly established that the Duke of 

 Hamilton's celebrated herd of semi-wild cattle, which has 

 existed at Cadzow Park, Lanarkshire, from the remotest 

 antiquity, although now horned, was formerly polled. 

 This latter curious and significant circumstance is authen- 

 ticated by the facts, that there is in preservation the 

 skeleton of a Cadzow ox showing the animal to have been 

 hornless, and that at the show of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland at Glasgow in 1844, two 

 polled specimens of the Cadzow herd were exhibited. 



From a very peculiar source we have interesting testi- 



