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Aberdeen 23rd, at 35 guineas. Pride of Aberdeen 5th 

 was the only daughter of the original Pride offered at the 

 sale, and although in her thirteenth year, she looked fresh 

 and useful. She had bred some of the finest members of 

 this fashionable family produced in recent years, among 

 them Mr Ferguson's national prize bull Shah, Mr Hannay's 

 Lilias of Tilly four, and Sir George Macpherson Grant's 

 Pride of Mulben. Sybil 1st, who was bred at Baads, won, 

 among other honours, the first prize as a cow at the High- 

 land Society's show in 1877, and the first prize and Chal- 

 lenge Cup for the best animal of the breed at Aberdeen 

 the same year. Her daughter, Sybil 2nd, after a very 

 distinguished career, was sold to Lord Southesk for 180 

 guineas. Among other animals added at various times 

 we may note Pride of Tarland 3148, Fair Lady 2159, 

 Frances of Airlie 3050, Constance 4196, Nosegay 4th 2974, 

 Lady Eegula 4200, &c. 



In the selection of sires, equal discretion has been dis- 

 played. Bolshan 420, bred by Lord Southesk, a local 

 prize-winner, after Jupiter 471, a son of Windsor 221, 

 and out of Ehoda 566, a daughter of Cup-Bearer 59, was 

 followed by the national prize bull Juryman 404, of the 

 Balliudalloch Jilt tribe. Belus 749, a son of Juryman, and 

 bred in the herd, was next used. Potentate 1199, bred at 

 Kinnochtry, after Shah 680, and out of Princess 3rd 1771, 

 of Mr Ferguson's Princess tribe, proved a very useful stock 

 sire. Logie the Laird 6th 1623, from Mr Bowie's herd, 

 after Gainsborough 3rd 598, and from the same Lizzy 

 family as produced the renowned Hanton 228, was secured 

 at a long figure. Pontiff 1497, a son of Potentate, and 

 descended from the Keillor herd, and Prince Chase 1454 

 of the Zara tribe, got by Challenger 1260, were also in 

 service. The sires more recently used have been the Erica 

 bull Elcho 595, the Pride bull Provost 1259, and the 

 Erica bull Erison 1624 the two first-named bred at Bal- 

 lindalloch, and the last bred in the herd. 



