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depreciatory remarks ; but the admiral told him " he 

 was wrong ; for such a breed, though then extinct, had 

 formerly existed at Cumbernauld." 



The next Scottish herd I shall notice is the Drum- 

 lanrig Herd, the property of that branch of the 

 house of Douglas which enjoyed successively the titles 

 of Earls, Marquises, and Dukes of Queensberry. The 

 Duke of Buccleuch, as heir general, is Duke of Queens- 

 berry, and possesses Drumlanrig ; the heir male is the 

 marquis of the same name. Unfortunately, this herd 

 has been long extinct, so that little is now known re- 

 specting it. Bewick onty slightly mentions it, saying 

 " the breed which was at Drumlanrig in Scotland had 

 also black ears." Mr. Hindmarsh, who derived his in- 

 formation from the clergyman of the place, writing in 

 1838, describes them as being "all white, with the ex- 

 ception of the ears and muzzle (which were black), and 

 without manes. They went under the appellation of 

 the wild Caledonian cattle. They were driven away 

 about 1780." Mr. William Dickinson, to whom I have 

 already alluded, an able authority, who was born in the 

 last century, in his paper " On the Farming of Cumber- 

 land," published in 1852, identifies the Drumlanrig 

 cattle with " the Caledonian Forest wild cattle," and as 

 having been in colour "a dun, or rather, flea-bitten 

 white, having black muzzles and ear-tips, with spotted 

 legs." He also mentions that "two cows and a bull" 

 of this breed "were living in 1821, but the bull and 

 one of the cows died from the effects of removal in 

 that year." The " flea-bitten white " and the " spotted 

 legs," which are found also in so many other wild 

 herds, are eminently suggestive ; while the last state- 



