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scaup hollowed under the eyes, broad muzzle, quick 

 dark eyes. 



" I got within less than a hundred yards of them, 

 and, having a good glass, saw them very clearly ; they 

 seem about as wild as those at Chartley. When killed 

 they are shot. Heaviest weight of steers, forty stone ; 

 cows would make about thirty stone ; they are only 

 made steers when calves. The beef is hard, tasteless, 

 and bad-coloured, more like veal than beef. Coloured 

 calves seldom come ,- but when they appear they are 

 black-and-white. The old bulls had a good deal of curly 

 hair on the neck and fore-part of the shoulder. All 

 I saw had horns. The bulls are nowadays separated 

 from the cows at certain seasons ; but this was not the 

 case formerly, and then calves were born at all times of 

 the year. Mr. Drew thought he remembered some of 

 the cattle without horns. 



" In 1866, the cattle-plague year, by Mr. Drew's 

 advice, some of the cattle — about fourteen in number, 

 including one bull — were got out of the park, and taken 

 away to the deep glen some distance off. These escaped 

 disease, and from them the present herd, about forty - 

 five animals all told, is descended. All the others, ex- 

 cept one old steer, died." * 



Another herd of wild cattle was kept in Scotland, 

 from forty to fifty years since, at Blair Athole, in the 

 north of Perthshire, one of the ancient Highland seats 

 of the Murrays, Dukes of Athole. It belonged to Lord 



* The above report, I am desired to state, is merely a resume of ob- 

 servations taken on the spot, and must not be regarded as a detailed 

 account. This equally applies to Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell's report on the 

 Kilmory herd. Both were kindly written with a view to affording Mr. 

 Storer information. — Ed. 



