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Though of a different colour, it reminded me most 

 strongly of the long, unkempt scratch wig which I had 

 seen many elderly men of the middle class wear in my 

 younger days. It was common to both males and 

 females, and gave their faces a singularly demure, owl- 

 like look ; it seemed as characteristically hereditary of 

 this breed as is the lock of wool on the forehead of 

 the Cotswold sheep. I observed it afterwards in the 

 Somerford Park white cattle, which in some other 

 respects much resemble these. 



Their hair was generally good and abundant ; the bulls 

 had a larger quantity on the neck than the others, and 

 it was more curly there than on other parts of the body, 

 but it could not be called, as in the Chillingham bulls, 

 a mane. All had black muzzles and black hoofs, and all 

 had — some more, some less — a tendency to black upon 

 the front part of the fetlock of all four legs, close to the 

 hoof, but much more upon the fore-legs than the hind. 

 In some of them there was a considerable quantity of 

 black upon that part of the fore-legs ; in others a small 

 blotch or two ; in all some. In most of them this was 

 not at all, or scarcely at all, perceptible on the hind- 

 legs ; but King, the keeper, assured me that the tendency 

 to it existed in all, and upon all four legs. One or two 

 were a little blotched with black above the muzzle, in 

 that respect also resembling the Somerford Park cattle. 

 Some of them, I could easily see, had small black spots 

 upon them, principally on the neck ; one cow especially 

 had a good many, visible at a considerable distance, not 

 only on the neck, but on the back and the body also ; 

 and King told me they all had them, though in the case 

 of the greater number they were only seen when the 

 cattle were changing their coat. These spots were very 



