GREY-BREASTED JOCK 2. 101 



No. 2 in this list, and out of a sister of his own. This 

 appears to have been the bull that gained for Mr Watson 

 the first prize at the Highland Society's show at Perth in 

 1829. He is not registered in the ' Herd Book.' 



(4.) The fourth Jock was GREY-BREASTED JOCK (No. 2 

 of 'Herd Book'). He was calved in 1839. His sire was 

 Black Jock (No. 3 in this list), and his dam was a cow 

 closely inbred to himself, and not entered in the ' Herd 

 Book.' Grey -breasted Jock, of whom Mr William Watson 

 and Mr Ferguson have a distinct recollection, gained the 

 first prize at one of the shows of the Highland Society : it 

 is uncertain which. In 1843 he was exhibited at the 

 show of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of Ireland, at Bel- 

 fast, in the catalogue of which he is entered as " Jock, four 

 years and six months old." He there gained the first pre- 

 mium of forty sovereigns and the medal. After the Bel- 

 fast show he was sold to Mr G. D. H, Kirkaldy, Hearnes- 

 brook, Eyrecourt, near Ballinasloe, and never returned to 

 Scotland. He is described by Mr William Watson as hav- 

 ing been " of immense length, short on his leg, elegant in 

 his gait, and masculine-looking : he was grand and mas- 

 sive all over, as well as a most kindly feeder." 



(5.) The fifth Jock was OLD JOCK (No. 1 of the 'Herd 

 Book '). This bull was bred by Hugh Watson, in 1 842. 

 He was got by Grey-breasted Jock (No. 2 of the f Herd 

 Book '), and was out of Old Favourite, the dam of Favour- 

 ite 2, and also of Angus 45. Old Favourite was lot one of 

 Mr Watson's sale in 1848, when she was bought by Mr 

 Bowie, Mains of Kelly. In Mr M'Combie's private cata- 

 logue, dated 1850, Angus 45 is stated to have had for dam 

 " No. 1 at Mr Watson's sale." Old Jock gained the first 

 prize as a yearling at the Highland Society's show at Dun- 

 dee in 1843, and the first prize in the aged class at the 

 Highland Society's show at Inverness in 1846. The only 

 information given in the entry of the bull at the latter 

 show was, that he was " aged four years and six months, 



