402 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Lyme Park, near Disley, Cheshire (Mr. W. J. Legh), at the 

 latter part of the fourteenth century. 



Cadzow Park, Hamilton, Lanarkshire (Duke of Hamilton). 

 Date of enclosure unknown, but the present park occupies a 

 portion of the old Caledonian Forest, in which Robert Bruce is 

 traditionally stated to have hunted the Wild Bull in 1320, and 

 where in 1500 James IV. of Scotland took part in the same 

 wild sport. 



The above are probably the only herds remaining on the 

 ground on which thej' were originally enclosed. 



Somerford Park, near Congleton, Cheshire (Sir Charles W. 

 Shakerley, Bart.). The cattle cannot be traced here more than 

 about 200 years, though it is possible they have been here since 

 the original enclosure of the park ; it is perhaps more likely that 

 they were brought in the seventeenth century from Middleton 

 Park, Lancashire, from a herd which in turn is supposed to have 

 come from Whalley Abbe}'. 



The Middleton herd is now represented by offshoots (to some 

 extent cross-bred, however, and now, like the Somerford herd, 

 domesticated) at Blickling, near Aylsham, Norfolk (Marchioness 

 of Lothian), and at Woodbastwick Hall, near Norwich (Mr. A. 

 Cator). The cattle were removed from Middleton about 1765 to 

 Gunton Park, Norwich (Lord Suffield), where they became extinct 

 in 1H53 ; but some had meanwhile — viz. between 1793 and 1810* — 

 been introduced to Blickling, and others in 1840 were sold to 

 Mr. Cator, of Woodbastwick. 



The herd at Vaynol, near Carnarvon (Mr. G. W. Duff- 

 Assheton-Smith), was started in 1872 from stock purchased from 

 Sir John Powlett Orde, of Kilmory House, Argyllshire. This 

 stock (see pp. 411, 412) was originally at Blair Athol, Perth- 

 shire. Li 1834 the herd was sold to the Marquis of Breadalbane, 

 Taymouth, and to the Duke of Buccleuch, Dalkeith. When the 

 latter herd was broken up, the late Sir John Orde purchased the 

 only survivor and transported it to Argyllshire. Li 1886 the 

 entire remainder of the Kilmory herd was transferred to Vaynol, 

 and incorporated with those already there. 



At Hamilton, Chartley, and Somerford, persons who have 

 known the herds for a number of years have expressed the opinion 



* Storer, ' Wild WMte Cattle,' p. 307. 



