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that I have very often — I may say generally — observed 

 in the white Short-horn a tendency to have a few red 

 hairs in the same place where the faint pencil-line of 

 red hair occurs in the Chillingham cattle. Such simi- 

 larities can scarcely be accidental ; they probably indi- 

 cate affinity, though perhaps remote, in blood. 



Another circumstance I noted first that day at 

 Chillingham. I had accepted as undoubtedly true the 

 assertion of all modern writers — Sir Walter Scott, Culley, 

 Hindmarsh, &c. — that the wild cattle had wholly lost 

 " the mane," which, according to Boethius and Leslie, the 

 Scottish wild bulls three hundred years since possessed, 

 and which may even (if Dr. Leigh's account of them is 

 to be so understood) have distinguished, 175 years since, 

 those belonging to Sir Ralph Assheton at Middleton, in 

 Lancashire. I had been content to accept the universally 

 received opinion, as stated by Culley, that the only 

 approximation to the manes mentioned by the old 

 writers is that " some of the bulls have a thin upright 

 mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long " — 

 which is not unfrequently the case with domestic cattle 

 also. What, then, was my surprise when I saw in 

 Landseer's picture that the mane of the bull was clearly 

 and distinctly shown. It was not, indeed, so strongly 

 developed as to resemble the mane of "the wild lion," as 

 we are told that of the old Caledonian bulls did; yet 

 there undoubtedly it was, in a rudimentary yet distinctive 

 form, covering the forehead, extending over every part 

 of the neck right down to the dewlap, and suddenly 

 ending in a clearly marked line at the shoulders, which, 

 be it observed, were well thrown back. There it was, 

 " crisp and curland " over all those parts, while the hair 

 was " meek and tame in the remanent figure of thair 



