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that the ears of the calf were red inside ; but it is quite 

 certain that it has three or four very distinctly marked 

 dark spots on the body — whether red or black, of course, 

 I cannot say, but clearly indicating in the last of the 

 race bred at Grisburne the same tendency to revert to 

 hereditary markings, long suppressed by selection, which 

 we find in other herds of the wild forest breed. 



For the quotations which follow I am also indebted 

 to the report of Mr. Assheton, who made every pos- 

 sible inquiry for me both at Whalley and at Grisburne. 

 He remarks : — " Dr. Whitaker says the Grisburne 

 cattle were white, without horns, and with black noses. 

 There are, in his ' Craven,' prints of both a bull and a 

 cow, which in most of the copies are printed in a sort of 

 coffee-coloured mezzo-tinto ; but some of the copies had 

 hand-coloured plates. I have seen such a copy, and 

 there the noses of the beasts are flesh-coloured, the ears 

 white outside, but with red hair inside them. A copy 

 of the ' History of Craven ' in the library at Gisburne 

 Park has the following note, opposite the statement 

 that the noses were black, in the handwriting of the first 

 Lord Kibblesdale : ' The ears and noses of this species 

 of cattle are never black, but most usually red or 

 brown.' 



"I saw, November 24th, 1874, Mr. Thomas Chew, 

 of Grisburne, steward to Lord Eibblesdale, aged forty- 

 four. He told me he never remembered the herd being 

 above seven or eight in number ; they seemed quite bred 

 out. They were (when he knew them) between a Short- 

 horn and a West Highland Scot in size. They were 

 quite tame, and housed in winter, as all good cattle are 

 here, and were milked for the house — they were mode- 

 rate milkers. The last cow and calf were sold to Mr. 



