196 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



between the time of Boethius and that of Bewick, a 

 period of over 260 years. But that this mane still 

 exists is evident, not only from Landseer's pictures, but 

 from his frequently expressed opinion — and no man ever 

 studied these cattle so minutely ; for Lord Tankerville 

 informs me that " Landseer always talked about it as a 

 characteristic of them." His lordship adds, what is 

 doubtless strictly true, that " the mane is not so strongly 

 developed as in the Bison, and only in roughness and 

 curliness as compared with the rest of the skin;" and 

 that " it is more developed in some of the bulls than in 

 others, and becomes more so with age." I have 

 suggested the possibility of restoring in some degree 

 this feature by a certain amount of selection of the 

 bulls which have it most. 



Perhaps I may be permitted to observe that I have 

 sometimes seen a tendency — I can scarcely call it more — 

 in some well-bred bulls of various Short-horn families to 

 produce a mane of this description, though of course to 

 a much more limited extent, and without the clear and 

 definite line of demarcation at the shoulder which 

 distinguishes the wild animal. As an illustration, I will 

 mention the picture in the dining-room at Warlaby of 

 Mr. Booth's celebrated and white bull, " Windsor " 

 (14013). 



The accounts which have been given, sufficiently 

 describe the general markings of the Chillingham cattle. 

 Like all other of the white herds with which I am 

 acquainted, they are subject to certain variations. They 

 have not been proved, indeed, to have the same tendency 

 to produce black or black-and-white calves which some 

 other herds have ; and we may, I think, take it for 

 granted that they either have no tendency to this, or at 



