284 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
lingham, many of the cows, as well as the bulls, looking a dirty 
cream-colour about the neck. The cattle-keeper told me that there 
had been twenty calves born this year, including five black ones, 
which he said were always “the bonniest calves, and a’ mostly 
quees.” He had heard the story that they were all killed off but 
one during the last century, and that the way the herd was started 
again was by breeding with the sole surviving bull and a common 
cow. During the rinderpest the herd was reduced to eight, not 
because the disease attacked them, but because they were killed 
by order of the local authorities, a few young animals being hidden 
in corners of the park and down coal-mines. 
MEASUREMENT (IN INcHES) oF Horns on Sturrep Heaps. 
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CHARTLEY: 
Bull “ : =}, -29 ‘ oF an 193 5 
»» another* - 19 14 374 | 10 18 93 
Cow - - : -| 20 20 354 174 
Orr's = - ae Se +6 
Lymer: 
Bull + - ‘ 21. Ob 13 9+ 10 Q1 
CHILLINGHAM: 
Bull - = - 25 144 15} 7} ie a! 
Cersy il pare eat DaROile Gx ui Ti ho 20 Vreting 
»» another - -| 192 143 154 6 ja 9 
Hamiron : 
Bull - : = he mi | 93 183 74 193 
Cow : ~ -! 104 Dien QWs 74 173 
* This second bull’s head, said to have belonged to the animal killed on the 
coming of age of the present Earl, is extremely different to any other in this herd, 
and is much more like the Chillingham heads, being covered all over with curly 
hair, about 2} inches long, and the general direction of the horns is upward. 
+ The only one preserved. 
