THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. XL] . NOVEMBER, 1887. [No. ]3L 



ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE EXISTING 

 HERDS OF BRITISH WILD WHITE CATTLE.=;= 



This Report does not include extinct herds, but as one herd — 

 that in Lyme Park — has only very recently ceased to exist, and 

 as this is the first account of the Wild Cattle published since that 

 catastrophe, it has been thought well to include a short notice of 

 that ancient stock. 



The following Hst includes all the herds now remaining in the 

 British Isles, arranged according to the probable order in time of 

 their arrival at their present abode. In the detailed account of 

 the different herds further on, they are arranged to some extent 

 geographically ,J"rom north to south. 



Chartley Park, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire (Earl Ferrers), 

 appears to have been enclosed by the middle of the thirteenth 

 century. 



Chillingham Park, near Belford, Northumberland (Earl of 

 Tankerville), seems to have been enclosed*before the latter part of 

 the same century, and possibly before 1220. t 



- Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. E. Bidwell, Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkius, Prof. Bridge, Mr. A. H. Cocks, Mr. E. de Hamel, Mr. J. E. Harting, 

 Prof. Milnes Marshall, Dr. Muirhead, Dr. Sclater, Canon Tristram, and 

 Mr. W. R. Hughes (Secretary), appointed by the British Association for the 

 purpose of preparing a Report on the Herds of Wild White Cattle at present 

 existing in Great Britain. Read at Manchester, Sept. 1887. 



f For these dates see the authorities quoted by Harting, ' Extinct British 

 Animals,' pp. 230— 232. 



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