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3. MERINO or Andalusia : Looser and lighter made, longer, 

 and less compact, twirling horn, wool silky, extremely fine : 

 Spanish sheep. 



Bos TAURUS The Wild Ox : Chartley-park is among the few 

 places where the indigenous wild cattle of Britain are now found : 

 the breed has been here preserved pure and unmixed, having been 

 constantly confined in a separate enclosure. The following are 

 their characteristics : colour white, muzzles and ears black, horns 

 white, fine, tipped with black. Their native wildness appears at 

 the first approach of man ; the whole herd instantly sets off at full 

 Speed to a considerable distance, and then wheels round, at the 

 same time staring with eager curiosity. The calves, even when 

 very young, have a natural shyness; if disturbed, they bleat to 

 alarm their dams, which will immediately attack the intruder : 

 their flesh is finely marbled, and of excellent flavour. The domes- 

 ticated varieties of this species are most generally the long-horned 

 breed in different degrees and stages of improvement ; and where 

 due attention is paid to selection, this variety is very respectable 

 both as milkers and feeders. Other varieties are 



2. TAURUS ALBA: Hornless, colour milk-white, ears tipped 

 with red, size and weight large, producing well to the pail, and 

 weighing, when full grown and fat, the cows 10 to 12 score the 

 quarter, and the male 12 to 15 score : they are well-formed, and 

 disposed to fatten, and handle sleek and well, with great weight 

 in the more valuable joints, and the cows of singular and beautiful 

 appearance. To be found at Dunstall-hall, near Wolverhampton. 



ORDER VI. BELLILE. 



EQUUS CABALLUS The Horse: Tail with long hair, ears short, 

 erect, mane long. The sort generally preferred for draught is the 

 heavy black breed, having the greatest weight and strength; but 

 some of the brown, and other colours, have doubtless more action 

 and energy of motion, and are to be preferred in all cases where 

 dispatch is more the object than strength. The Welsh mountain 

 breed is often very hardy, and useful, for the saddle and road. 



2. ASINUS The Ass: Ears long, flaccid, a black cross on the top 

 of the shoulders. This animal finds its value in the revolutions of 

 time, being now kept by many respectable females as a donkey or 

 pad, for short rides. 



Sus SCROFA The Hog: Hoof divided, two tusks in each jaw, 

 ridge beset with strong bristles. The dividing of the hoof was 



