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down rather lower behind the fore-legs; narrow bands of white 
round legs just above the knees and by, or rather below, the hocks. 
She has a fine glossy, smooth coat. Horns much the same shape, 
and put on at the same angle, as the horn-cores of Bos primigenius, 
with black tips. Nose black; udder white. The end of her tail 
just reaches the ground, Two heifers, not quite full grown—one 
out of each of the existing cows; both, I believe, by the Chartley 
bull. One of them—I imagine the black cow’s calf—has the nose 
black and a little black on fore-fetlocks, and black ears. The 
other has flesh-coloured nose with black smutting, and rusty black 
or reddish inside of ears. These five last-mentioned are on the 
moor, which is said to be about seven miles in circumference. 
I found them feeding near the lower edge, where the grass was very 
rough, with rushes. At the farm they have a yearling heifer by the 
Chartley bull out of a common cow, which was, according to the 
farm-boy, a roan. The heifer is exactly like the wild breed—black 
nose and ears, &c.—except that the proportionate size of her fore 
and hind quarters seem more equalized, as in a tame animal. Also 
a very small heifer, about the same age as the last, or even possibly 
older, given by Mr. D. Assheton Smith, who I understand has a 
herd of white cattle in his park (Bala, North Wales), and one man 
believed that he had procured them from Scotland.* This heifer 
has a dull, almost lead-coloured nose, and long rough coat, with 
pink insides to the ears—an ugly, stunted-looking little thing. 
These two are both, I fear, going to be added to the herd,—and 
are, indeed, reckoned with it now, as I was told it consisted of 
eight head,—which seems a very great pity. A garden man told 
me that about thirty years ago the herd numbered as many as 
thirty-four. 
Chillingham.— Visitors to Chillingham Castle, Northumber- 
land (the seat of the Earl of Tankerville), are requested not to go 
into the park unless with the park-keeper, and as the cattle are shy 
here (far more so than even the red deer), the park-keeper, Mickie, 
only takes one so as to get a distant view, in order not to frighten 
them; for, as he says, they can take plenty of exercise for them- 
selves, without being made to gallop for every visitor that comes 
to see them. Hence, although I had excellent distant views on 
July 4th and Sth, I was unable to inspect this herd closely. The 
* If so, can they be from one of the four herds, now extinct, mentioned in Bell’s 
‘British Quadrupeds,’ 2nd edit., p. 370, as having formerly existed in Scotland ? 
