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by Bright 454 Of Kate of Aberdeen (not entered in 

 the ' Herd Book ') Mr Dixon says, " She was certainly the 

 best calf of any breed we have ever looked over." Kate 

 was the first-prize yearling and two-year-old at the High- 

 land Society's shows in 1864 and 1865. It is, however, 

 through the descendants of Matilda and her daughter 

 Pride of Alford 1778, first-prize yearling at Kelso in 1872, 

 that the tribe is now best known. Mr M'Combie also 

 purchased Normahal, who was the dam of the famous 

 Bright 454 ; while from Zara was bred the bulls Cham- 

 pion 459 and Scotsman 474. Another animal bred by Mr 

 Collie from the cattle obtained in the locality was Marius 

 564, the first-prize yearling bull of the Highland Society 

 at Inverness in 1865, afterwards passing into the posses- 

 sion of the late Mr Robertson, Burnside. Mr Collie 

 also owned Fair Maid of Perth 313, of the Queen tribe, 

 purchased at Tillyfour in 1857 for 86. She was the first- 

 prize cow at the National show at Edinburgh in 1859. 

 He won with Mayflower 314, bred at Mulben, the first 

 prize for cows at the Highland Society's show at Perth in 

 1861. The famous Balwyllo cow, Keepsake 427, was at 

 Ardgay for some years, as were also several other cows 

 from Kinnaird and Balwyllo. The chief sires in the herd 

 were Black Douglas 311 and Kinnaird 224 both bred by 

 Lord South esk, and the latter the second-prize two-year- 

 old at Glasgow in 1857 and Arthur of Balwyllo 478. 



The Honourable Charles Carnegie, who in November 1857 

 went to Mr Collie as a pupil, has supplied us with a few 

 notes regarding the Ardgay herd. When Mr Carnegie 

 went to Mr Collie's, he found there the following polled 

 stock viz., Fair Maid of Perth 313, Empress 312 bought 

 from the Earl of Southesk for 60 guineas Blinkbonny 

 315, Cordelia 320, Dorrit 316, Hinda 322, Nannie 321, 

 Duchess 317, Mayflower 314, and some heifer calves. 

 Fair Maid of Perth, afterwards in succession second 

 and first at the Highland Society's shows, was a grand 



