280 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
park covers the side of a hill, rising to about 800 feet above the 
Castle, and faces nearly due north.* Entering at the lower side, 
we very soon saw, at some distance off above us, fifteen beasts— 
cows, yearlings and calves—just below a big wood, into which they 
all gradually disappeared. After about half an hour, several—at 
first about five, then two or three, and a single one or two—came 
down at a good pace out of the wood, downhill and towards our 
left, and disappeared again into another wood on that side. After 
again waiting for some time without seeing anything more of the 
cattle, we came away, as Mickie wanted to get back in time to 
take charge of a party he was expecting. I afterwards went, with 
this party, up the road on the west side of the park to about two 
hundred feet from the top of the hill. When we entered the park, 
and going some little way further onwards and upwards, we 
presently heard the herd, or at least the bulls, below us, bellowing— 
a peculiar sound, almost a cry, very different, I fancied, from the 
lowing of domestic cattle. On getting out at the end of the wood 
in which we were, we saw the whole herd, consisting of fifty-nine 
head, over the tops of the next belt of wood, in the low ground 
below us; and a fine sight it was, the herd for the most part 
standing still, a bull occasionally bellowing and moving a few steps, 
two young bulls now and then indulging in a little butting-match, 
then one—perhaps a heifer—would “ frisk,” something like a horse 
shying, and go curvetting away sideways for a few yards, then 
suddenly stand still, except that its tail slowly swung from side to 
side. Some of the party had very soon seen enough and wanted 
to return, so we were all obliged to go. The view up there was 
magnificent, all the background to the north being the Cheviots, 
except a large gap through which we could see into Scotland,t the 
sea on the east, and a fine panorama of hills on the west. Having 
seen the party off the premises, Mickie took me to see the hybrid 
calves, at the farm, by a wild bull ont of short-horn cows. They 
consist of a heifer born June 10th last (the cow’s first calf) and a 
bull born June 17th. The latter’s ears are rather bright red inside 
and nearly half their length externally, the two colours in no way 
blending, but meeting abruptly; nose red, smutted with black, and 
* * It is said to contain 1500 acres of wood. Cattle have existed here in a semi-wild 
state for many generations. The park itself is mentioned in records extending 
back to 1220.—Ep. 
+ The old forest formerly extended between Chillingham and Hamilton, where 
a similar herd of cattle, with brown ears, still exists. —Eb. 
