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keeper he has perceived no alteration in their size or 

 habits from in-breeding, and that at the present time 

 they are equal in every point to what they were when 

 he first knew them. About half a dozen within that 

 period have had small brown or blue spots upon the 

 cheeks and necks ; but these, with any defective ones, 

 were always destroyed." 



It ought perhaps to be added that Mr. Hindmarsh's 

 paper goes on to discuss " the high antiquity of the 

 Chillingham breed of wild cattle," as shown in Lord 

 Tankerville's letter. He remarks that " the testimony 

 of the two Moscrops, connected with the contemporaries 

 of the first Moscrop, would almost carry us back a 

 period of two hundred years, when their origin seemed 

 to be veiled in the same obscurity as at present exists 

 respecting it. To this," he says, " must be added the 

 negative proof derivable from the absence of all record 

 of their introduction into the park." Mr. Hindmarsh 

 proceeds to state his belief that the Chillingham wild 

 cattle are of the same race as the Caledonian wild bull, 

 and gives his reasons for that opinion ; and both he and 

 Lord Tankerville make statements with regard to other 

 wild breeds which had been preserved at Chartley, 

 Cadzow, Drumlanrig, &c. All this will be fully con- 

 sidered in its proper place. 



As a sequel to the accounts of the late Lord 

 Tankerville and Mr. Hindmarsh, it may be worth 

 mentioning that one of the last of the great hunts of 

 the wild cattle, as practised in ancient times, and as 

 described by Culley, is said to have taken place in the 

 year 1826, when a bull was shot by Earl Clanwilliam, 

 the clean carcase of which weighed fifty-six stones. One 

 half of this was sent as a present to King Greorge IV. 



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