232 EXISTING SCOTCH HERDS. 



cultivated with much success by Mr Hannay, particularly 

 the branch springing from Blackbird of Corskie 1704, a 

 daughter of Mr Walker's Lady Ida 1021. Blackbird 1704 

 was sold in 1881 to Mr Cartwright of Melville for 66 

 guineas. Her daughter Blackbird 2d 3204, gained the 

 first prize of the Highland Society for cows in 1879. 

 Blackbird 3rd 3766 was acquired by Sir George Macpher- 

 son Grant for 71 guineas, and Blackbird 4th 3769 went to 

 Lord Strathmore. Black Standard 1541, after St. Glair 

 1160, and out of Blackbird 1704, was used in the Auchlin 

 and Waterside of Forbes herds. Last year Blackbird 2nd 

 3024 had twin calves, Benefit 5015, and Benefit 2nd 5016, 

 by Challenger 1260. Corriemulzie 2nd 3415, out of Lady 

 Ida 1021, gained no fewer than twelve prizes, among them 

 several challenge cups, at the county show, and second 

 prize as a two-year-old at the Highland Society in 1879. 

 Another calf of Lady Ida's was Violet of Montbletton 1399, 

 who bred His Excellency 1271, the stock bull at Skene, 

 and was sold in 1878 to Lord Strathmore for 80 guineas. 

 Idyll 4541, out of Lady Ida 1021, and after Young Viscount 

 736, was the third prize as a yearling heifer at the High- 

 land Society's show in 1880. Zingra 2471, the first-prize 

 two-year-old heifer at the Highland Society's show in 

 1876, was sold to Mr M'Cornbie of Tillyfour for 81 guineas. 

 Corriemulzie 1701, bred at Bogfern, and descended from 

 the Keillor stock, was twice second in the cow class at 

 Highland Society's shows. Crocus 2nd 3765, after Young 

 Viscount 736, and from the Balwyllo Isabella family, was 

 sold to Mr Tayler of Glenbarry for 82 guineas. Jemel 

 1413, of the Ballindalloch Jilt family, won several prizes, 

 and was sold to Mr Walker, Montbletton, for 58 guineas. 

 Good animals were also bred from the Westertown 

 Duchess branch of the Queen tribe ; Mr Barclay's Matilda 

 branch of the Queen tribe, the Ballindalloch Sybil tribe ; 

 the Zara family; the Castle Eraser Blanche family; the 

 Kothiemay Georgina family, etc. From the last named 



