9514 Sucklers. 



with dark brown. Feeds on the pith within the stem of Typha lalifolia (reed mace), 

 is full fed in Au°:usi, and about (he end of ihe month changes within its abode to a 

 lon^' dark hiown pupa, the tail of which is attached to the upper portion of the excava- 

 tioi), the head thus hanging; downwards, and being one inch and a half from the hole 

 in the outer rind, ilirounh whith the moth emerges in the following month. — William 

 Buckler i Emsworth, Hants, in ' Young England^ March, 1865. 



Notes on ihe Wild Cattle at Cadzow. 

 By Edward R. Alston, Esq. 



Much interest is attached to the various herds of wild while cattle 

 (the Bos scoticus of Swainson) which are still preserved in a few parks 

 throughout Britain, and some valuable information might be collected 

 were any readers of the 'Zoologist' who live near such cattle to favour 

 us with notes on their habits. Several valuable accounts have appeared 

 of the famous herd kept at Chillingham by the Earls of Tankerville, 

 but of the other breeds little or nothing has been published. Having 

 frequently visited those preserved by the Dukes of Hamilton at Cadzow 

 (close to Hamilton), and having received much information on their 

 habits from the keeper, Mr. Haliday (a most trustworthy observer), 

 I have made the following notes upon the subject. 



Lord Tankerville, speaking of the Cadzow cattle, in a letter read 

 before the British Association at Newcastle in 1838, says, " They have 

 no beauty, no marks of high breeding, and no wild habits, being kept, 

 when I saw them, in a kind of paddock." However this may have been 

 in 1888, the case is widely different now. The cattle have the range 

 of " Cadzow Forest," an extensive park studded with grotesque old 

 oaks, and believed to be one of the last relics of the great Caledonian 

 forest which once stretched from the Clyde to the Tweed. Judging 

 from the published accounts of the Chillingham cattle, they would not 

 seem to be wilder in their habits than those at Hamilton, and as to 

 appearance a more beautiful, or (to use an expressive word) a more 

 thoroughly ^awe-looking animal than an old Cadzow bull can hardly 

 be imagined. 



The wild cattle at Cadzow differ from the Chillingham breed in 

 having the ears, as well as the muzzle, hoofs, pasterns and tips of the 

 horns all jetty black, whereas the latter have the ears red; according 

 to Lord Tankerville, however, many of the former Chillingham cattle 

 had black ears, as was also the case with those at Burton-Constable, 

 in Yorkshire. The rest of the head, body and limbs are creamy white, 

 purer in colour in cows and calves, and deepening almost to a light 



